Optimising autoimmune treatment patent invalid: a ‘Law of Nature’ is not a law passed by Congress
(sticK - 26 March 2012 ) On 20 March the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) issued a decision unanimously allowing an appeal by the Mayo Clinic and declaring invalid two patents that a lower court had found Mayo to be infringing.
The background to the invention is described on the web page of one of the inventors.
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