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Most comprehensive patent reform in almost 60 years approved by US senate
By Niklas Mattsson | Posted on March 11, 2011
Most comprehensive patent reform in almost 60 years approved by US senate Historic breakthrough as USA gets to grips with “first-to-invent”, the enormous backlog of patent applications and simplifying procedures for filing patents in the USA. On Tuesday 8 March 2011, the US Senate voted to approve the nation’s most comprehensive patent reform since 1952,...
BRCA patents in Europe
By Niklas Mattsson | Posted on April 1, 2010
An ongoing lawsuit in the US has attracted a lot of attention worldwide. The American Civil Liberties Union has, together with other parties, sued the US Patent and Trademark Office, Myriad Genetics and others. On Monday 29 March 2010, a judge in a federal District Court in New York ruled that the “Myriad patents” in...
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