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Optimising autoimmune treatment patent invalid says Congress

Optimising autoimmune treatment patent invalid: a ‘Law of Nature’ is not a law passed by Congress

By Doug Calhoun for sticK

(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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http://sticknz.net/2012/03/23/optimising-autoimmune-treatment-patent-invalid-a-law-of-nature-is-not-a-law-passed-by-congress/

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