Last Thursday, the Supreme Court held that some forms of DNA are patent-eligible in its long-awaited opinion, Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc.. Following Chakrabarty, the Supreme Court ruled that naturally occurring DNA is not patent-eligible, however cDNA, a form of DNA artificially created in a lab to isolate [...]
Continue Reading →Trademarks can be attacked on many grounds, such as lack of distinctiveness or misuse. Lately, however, the trademarks of some universities have been under threat from an usual source: boobs. The Twitter account @KUboobs posts pictures of women’s chests with something related to KU in the photo. The photos are usually provocative and [...]
Continue Reading →In the Ninth Circuit, Google argues that the Wiretap Act does not prohibit interception of unencrypted wireless transmissions. The Supreme Court unanimously rules in Myriad that isolated DNA is not patentable, while cDNA is. [via SCOTUSBlog] Monsanto keeps farmers worried about inadvertent infringement out [...]
Continue Reading →Great Googley moogley! Google and other big firms that operate under the glare of the European Commission competition spotlight may now have many, many more individual spotlights upon them, heating up the stakes for potential antitrust abuses. On June 11, 2013, the European Commission proposed a Continue Reading →