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Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories
Mayo (2012) holds laws of nature need an inventive concept to be patent eligible.
Citation: Mayo Collaborative Servs. v. Prometheus Labs., Inc., 566 U.S. 66 (2012)
Type: Case
Jurisdiction: Federal
Issuing body: Supreme Court of the United States
Status: Decided
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Parties: Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc.
Proceeding: court decision
Mayo holds that a claim directed to a law of nature is not patent eligible unless it adds an inventive concept beyond the natural law itself. It supplies the second step of the eligibility framework applied with Alice under 35 U.S.C. ยง 101.
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