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Intellectual Property Litigation: Supreme Court Affirms Reach of Rule Limiting Patents on Laws of Nature
May 11, 2012
Litigation partner Lew Clayton's intellectual property litigation column, published in the May 9 issue of the New York Law Journal, discusses Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, where a unanimous Supreme Court reaffirmed the power and reach of the long-standing rule that "laws of nature, natural phenomena, and abstract ideas" may not be patented. The Court reversed the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, rejecting patents covering a method to determine the proper dose of a drug. The column also discusses recent significant copyright, trademark and patent cases. Litigation associates Matthew Conrad and Annie Pell assisted in preparing the article.