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Supreme Court Declines to Consider Medical Diagnostic Patents

The U.S. Supreme Court stayed out of the debate over what types of medical diagnostic tests can be patented, leaving in legal limbo companies that discover ways to diagnose and treat diseases based on patients’ unique characteristics. The justices rejected …

U.S. Court Case Could Mean Doom for Software Patents

The U.S. Supreme Court decided Friday to hear an appeal of a lower court decision that a federal judge called the “death” of software patents. In a worst-case scenario for the high-tech industry, if the Supreme Court upholds the ruling …