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Thursday, December 8, 2011

US Court Rules Diagnostic Medical Tests Can Be Patented.

Bloomberg News Share to FacebookShare to Twitter (12/7, Decker) reports, "Diagnostic medical tests can be patented, a US appeals court ruled in its first decision on the issue since a landmark Supreme Court case six months ago on business-method patents." The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington stated that "Prometheus Laboratories Inc.'s method of determining the dosage of medicines to treat stomach diseases can be patented." This ruling may help "companies including Myriad Genetics Inc...and Novartis AG...which have tried to capitalize on burgeoning demand for 'personalized medicine,' where doctors determine if a patient is genetically susceptible to a particular disease or would be more responsive to certain medicines."

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