TY - JOUR
T1 - Mayo’s impact on patent applications related to biotechnology, diagnostics and personalized medicine
AU - Aboy, Mateo
AU - Crespo, Cristina
AU - Liddell, Kathleen
AU - Minssen, Timo
AU - Liddicoat, Johnathan
PY - 2019/5
Y1 - 2019/5
N2 - On the sixth year anniversary of Mayo (https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/10-1150.pdf), our empirical study examines the impact of the US Supreme Court decision on patent subject-matter eligibility, patent examination and patent prosecution of biotech related patent applications before the USPTO. To answer our research questions, we developed an empirical methodology designed to elucidate Mayo’s impact on patent applications across a full technology center, TC 1600, which relates to Biotechnology & Organic Chemistry, as well as the narrower Art Unit 1634. Our search algorithm identified 72,990 USPTO correspondence documents that contained a Mayo citation over the last six years (20 March 2012 to 20 March 2018). Of these, 33,878 were identified in Examiner Office Actions, 34,417 in Applicant Responses to Office Actions and 4,695 in other correspondence, such as Appeals.
AB - On the sixth year anniversary of Mayo (https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/10-1150.pdf), our empirical study examines the impact of the US Supreme Court decision on patent subject-matter eligibility, patent examination and patent prosecution of biotech related patent applications before the USPTO. To answer our research questions, we developed an empirical methodology designed to elucidate Mayo’s impact on patent applications across a full technology center, TC 1600, which relates to Biotechnology & Organic Chemistry, as well as the narrower Art Unit 1634. Our search algorithm identified 72,990 USPTO correspondence documents that contained a Mayo citation over the last six years (20 March 2012 to 20 March 2018). Of these, 33,878 were identified in Examiner Office Actions, 34,417 in Applicant Responses to Office Actions and 4,695 in other correspondence, such as Appeals.
KW - Faculty of Law
KW - patents
KW - diagnostics
KW - biotechnology
KW - precision medicine
KW - Intellectual property rights (IPR)
KW - US
KW - Europe
UR - https://rdcu.be/bz32p
UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-019-0111-5
U2 - 10.1038/s41587-019-0111-5
DO - 10.1038/s41587-019-0111-5
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 31053817
VL - 37
SP - 513
EP - 518
JO - Nature Biotechnology
JF - Nature Biotechnology
SN - 1087-0156
ER -