The key takeaways for this program are:
- Understanding the Prometheus decision and what the Supreme Court did and did not say;
- Understanding the question at issue in Myriad and how it is similar—and different—from that decided in Prometheus;
- Learning possible patent claim strategies to protect personalized medicine methods and biotechnology inventions under the new paradigm;
- Reviewing the U.S. Patent Office Guidance to Examiners, issued shortly after the Supreme Court decided Prometheus; and
- Discussing Options for strengthening already granted patents.
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