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Judge Robert Sweet in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has allowed a challenge to two gene patents owned by Myriad Genetics.  The ACLU, on behalf of scientific organizations, researchers, genetic counselors, and individual women, is contesting the validity of gene patents in general, and is challenging the patents on [...]

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Bloomberg reports that Yahoo has settled a lawsuit that accused the Internet search company of allowing unauthorized resellers of Mary Kay products use Mary Kay’s logos in pop-up advertisements.

Facebook is sued again for being too free with your personal information: Wired.com’s Threat Level blogs that a Texas woman has filed [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Monday in Bilski v. Kappos, which will require it to rule on the patentability of a method of hedging risks in commodities trading.  Michael Jakes of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner represented Petitioner Bilski, and Malcolm Stewart, assistant to the U.S. Solicitor General, represented Respondent Kappos [...]

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Patently-O wonders whether the Supreme Court might take the opportunity afforded by the upcoming Bilski method patent case to scrap software patents, and states the socio-economic case for abandoning them.

Engineering crime scenes: Lawyers.com considers a study which suggests that fabricating DNA evidence is far from science fiction.

On the Edges of [...]