Is the Patent Eligibility Act a Panacea for Claims to Diagnostics? |

On January 23, the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property held a hearing in which the members of the committee heard testimony about the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA) introduced by Senators Coons and Tillis. I have considered case law directed to s. 101 of 25 U.S.C. for more than a decade, and was hopeful that PERA could achieve its subtitled goal of “Restoring Clarity, Certainty, and Predictability to the U.S. Patent System”. The eight panelists had submitted comments that preceded the hearing, and the hearing was…