CIPO has issued practice guidance to patent examiners on patentable subject matter (PN2013-02) and the examination of computer-implemented inventions (PN2013-03) following the November 2011 decision in Canada (Attorney General) v. Amazon.com Inc. 2011 FCA 328.
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Myriad Genetics going to the US Supreme Court
This afternoon, the United States Supreme Court announced that it will hear the appeal in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics on a single question: “Are human genes patentable?”
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Patentable Subject Matter
Tomorrow is the one-year anniversary of the Federal Court of Appeal’s Amazon.com decision on patentable subject matter. There are reports that new CIPO Practice Notices on patentable subject matter will be issued after Christmas.
CIPO’s patentable subject matter update
Gene Patents
Today, the United States CAFC issued its latest decision on the patentability of gene patents in Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) and ACLU v. USPTO and Myriad Genetics after its earlier decision in the case was vacated following the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Mayo v. Prometheus, Inc.
Comments on CIPO Consultation
CIPO has posted the comments it received relating to its proposed guidance on patentable subject matter. Most of the posted comments are critical of the proposals. Continue reading Comments on CIPO Consultation
CIPO consultation on patentable subject matter
CIPO has released its consultation documents on patentable subject matter. The consultation period is open until May 2, 2012 and relates to both the Federal Court of Appeal’s decision in Amazon.com and diagnostic methods.
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USSC on unpatentable subject matter
The U.S. Supreme Court has issued its decision on the patentability of correlation procedures in Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Labs., Inc. The Court unanimously reversed the CAFC and held that the claims were effectively directed to laws of nature and therefore unpatentable.
CAFC on computer claims in DealerTrack
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit released a decision today in DealerTrack v. Huber on the patentability of computer claims. It held that claims “for executing a computer program” were means-plus-function limited to the algorithms in the specification and “computer aided” limitations did not render claims patentable subject matter.
Amazon.com’s ‘one-click’ patent granted in Canada
As an update to my post earlier this month about the allowance of the patent application, the Amazon.com “one-click” patent has been granted in Canada. The Canadian Patent Office website shows that CA2,246,933 has an issue date of today.