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It has been three months since the U.S. Supreme Court's
decision in Prometheus and, with the recent grant-vacate-remand of
Ultramercial to the Federal Circuit, the patent bar is left to
speculate on the application of this holding both within and
outside of medical diagnostics.
This article investigates the court's conflation of the
novelty inquiry under 35 USC § 102 with the patent-eligibility
inquiry under § 101. We conclude that the court's desire
to avoid rendering as a dead letter the "law of nature"
exception to § 101 patentability has, apparently unwittingly,
rendered § 102 a dead letter for certain types of claims. Left
open and unresolved is the question of whether the expanded scope
of § 101 also implicates the inquiry for obviousness under
§ 103.
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