ARE Patent Alert: Supreme Court Holds That Naturally Occuring DNA Sequences Are Not Patent-Eligible But cDNA May Be Patented

On June 13, 2013, in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc, No. 12-398, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Myriads claim to isolated naturally occurring human DNA sequences are not eligible for patent protection.  By contrast, the Court ruled that Myriad’s claims to cDNA, which includes DNA sequences that do not naturally occur […]