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Interview with Dr. Aaron Kesselheim on a recent Supreme Court ruling on patents for diagnostic tests. (16:28)Download In Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, the Supreme Court has proscribed patents from covering correlations used in making biomarker-based diagnoses when those patents simply describe “steps that must be taken in order to apply” a natural law.
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