REVERSED
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1654 Ex Parte Burkhard 10545676 - (D) PRATS 112(1)/102 WENDEROTH, LIND & PONACK, L.L.P. HA, JULIE
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1734 Ex Parte Legario et al 10646930 - (D) Per Curiam 103 BERESKIN & PARR LLP/S.E.N.C.R.L., s.r.l. FELTON, AILEEN BAKER
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2177 Ex Parte Merkel et al 10335110 - (D) DIXON 103 SAP / FINNEGAN, HENDERSON LLP RUTLEDGE, AMELIA L
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2443 Ex Parte Kihara et al 10861212 - (D) DIXON 103 FINNEGAN, HENDERSON, FARABOW, GARRETT & DUNNER LLP SHIN, KYUNG H
2476 Ex Parte CARDONA et al 11751302 - (D) CLEMENTS 103 IBM CORPORATION (MH) c/o MITCH HARRIS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, L.L.C. SLOMS, NICHOLAS
2675 Ex Parte Beretta 11017012 - (D) RUGGIERO 103 HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY MENBERU, BENIYAM
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3652 Ex Parte Kurita et al 11926720 - (D) BROWN 103 Applied Materials, Inc. LOWE, MICHAEL S
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3736 Ex Parte Calderon et al 12264293 - (D) FRANKLIN 103 DEKEL PATENT LTD. NGUYEN, HUONG Q
3736 Ex Parte Tenerz et al 10390185 - (D) NEW 103 FOLEY AND LARDNER LLP SMITH, FANGEMONIQUE A
3738 Ex Parte HARRIS et al 11626608 - (D) MILLS 102/103 Massachusetts General Hospital Perkins Cole LLP The General Hospital Corporation STEWART, JASON-DENNIS NEILKEN
3778 Ex Parte Cohen et al 11540418 - (D) HOFFMANN 102 KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC. ANDERSON, CATHARINE L
AFFIRMED-IN-PART
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1629 Ex Parte Miura et al 12067722 - (D) PRATS 103 103 OBLON, SPIVAK, MCCLELLAND MAIER & NEUSTADT, L.L.P. TOWNSLEY, SARA ELIZABETH
AFFIRMED
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1629 Ex Parte Koenen et al 10515896 - (D) NEW 103 NATH, GOLDBERG & MEYER HUANG, GIGI GEORGIANA
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1746 Ex Parte Reynolds et al 10363279 - (D) GARRIS 101/103 E I du Pont de Nemours & Company SCHATZ, CHRISTOPHER T
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2113 Ex Parte Anerousis et al 10929878 - (D) HUME 102 RYAN, MASON & LEWIS, LLP MASKULINSKI, MICHAELC
2194 Ex Parte Cutlip 11847298 - (D) KUMAR 101/103 CAREY, RODRIGUEZ, GREENBERG & O'KEEFE, LLP TRUONG, LECHI
Tech Center 3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products & Design
3727 Ex Parte Mazur 11769810 - (D) BUNTING 103 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/Ann Arbor SHAKERI, HADI
3769 Ex Parte Jung et al 11804304 - (D) PRATS 101/102/103 THE INVENTION SCIENCE FUND YAO, SAMCHUAN CUA
REHEARING
GRANTED
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3763 Ex Parte Beckham 11551339 - (D) GREEN obviousness-type double patenting Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. FLICK, JASON E
REEXAMINATION
AFFIRMED
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1732 THE HAARTZ CORPORATION Requester and Respondent v. BENECKE-KALIKO AG Patent Owner and Appellant 95000611 6,663,738 09/829,196 LEBOVITZ 102/103 FAY SHARPE LLP Third Party Requester: GROSSMAN,TUCKER,PERREAULT & PFLEGER, PLLC DIAMOND, ALAN D original TENTONI, LEO B
1745 The Gillette Company Patent Owner and Appellant 90010769 6410187 09/393,043 LEBOVITZ 103 FISH & RICHARDSON P.C. Third Party Requester: Stites & Harbison PLLC original THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY LOPEZ, CARLOS N original CREPEAU, JONATHAN
FEDERAL CIRCUIT
REHEARING
GRANTED
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3642 SOVERAIN SOFTWARE LLC, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. NEWEGG INC., Defendant-Appellant. 2011-1009 5,715,314 08/328,133 PER CURIAM claim interpretation STERNE, KESSLER, GOLDSTEIN & FOX P.L.L.C. GREGORY, BERNARR E
SUPREME COURT
AFFIRMED-IN-PART
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1632 ASSOCIATION FOR MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY, ET AL., PETITIONERS v. MYRIAD GENETICS, INC., ET AL. 12–398 5,747,282 08/483,554 5,693,473 08/480,784 5,837,492 08/639,501 THOMAS 101 101 ROTHWELL, FIGG, ERNST & MANBECK, P.C. RAZZAQUE, ABDUR; REES, DIANE; HAUDA, KAREN MARIE
This would be at odds with the very point of patents, which exist to promote creation. Diamond v. Chakrabarty, 447 U. S. 303, 309 (1980) (Products of nature are not created, and “‘manifestations . . . of nature [are] free to all men and reserved exclusively to none’”)....
In Chakrabarty, scientists added four plasmids to a bacterium, which enabled it to break down various components of crude oil. 447 U. S., at 305, and n. 1. The Court held that the modified bacterium was patentable. It explained that the patent claim was “not to a hitherto unknown natural phenomenon, but to a nonnaturally occurring manufacture or composition of matter—a product of human ingenuity ‘having a distinctive name, character [and] use.’” Id. , at 309–310 (quoting Hartranft v. Wiegmann, 121 U. S. 609, 615 (1887); alteration in original).
Diamond v. Chakrabarty, 447 U.S. 303, 206 USPQ 193 (1980) , 2103, 2105, 2106, 2107.01
We merely hold that genes and the information they encode are not patent eligible under §101 simply because they have been isolated from the surrounding genetic material.
