Supreme Court to Consider Whether A Patent for a B Vitamin Deficiency Test Improperly Covers a Law of Nature

Case: Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings v. Metabolite Laboratories Inc. et al., No. 04-607

The One Sentence Summary: The Supreme Court will be considering whether a patent on a test based upon a correlation of an amino acid to B vitamin deficiencies improperly grants a patent on a law of nature. Read the Yahoo! news article here.


The Supreme Court will be considering whether a patent on a test based upon a correlation of an amino acid to B vitamin deficiencies improperly grants a patent on a law of nature. Read the Yahoo! news article here.