USA: Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University v. Chinese University of Hong Kong, United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit, No. 2015-2011, 27 June 2017
Decisions by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in three interference proceedings between Stanford University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong (“CUHK”)—in which the Board found that methods of testing for fetal aneuploidies in DNA samples drawn from maternal blood were unpatentable for lack of written description—have been vacated by the U.S. Court of…