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15 March 2021AmericasRory O'Neill

Fed Circuit rejects Stanford Uni’s ‘abstract’ genetics patent

Stanford University can’t patent a genetic testing method as it is based on “abstract mathematical calculations”, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled.

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