District Court Rules DNA Analysis Claims Reciting Mathematical Algorithms Ineligible Under § 101
By EsqSocial Corporation 02/11/20
The District Court for the Northern District of Ohio dismissed Cybergenetics Corp.’s infringement suit after determining that the asserted claims—which recite mathematical algorithms for analyzing data taken from a DNA sample—are patent ineligible under the Alice two-step framework. That is, the court ruled that the claims are directed to an “abstract idea” and do not include an “inventive concept.”...
By: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP