Supreme Court Denies Sequenom’s Petition to Clarify Scope of Mayo in Sequenom v. Ariosa

On June 27, 2016, the United States Supreme Court denied a Petition for Writ of Certiorari filed by Sequenom, Inc. requesting the Supreme Court to clarify the scope of its Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc., 132 S. Ct. 1289 (2012) decision, as applied to Sequenom’s claimed inventions.  The Mayo decision, which held that a method correlating a drug dosage regimen and levels of the drug in the blood was an unpatentable law of nature, has had the profound effect of narrowing the scope of patent-eligible subject matter in the United States and has cast doubt on the validity and enforceability of previously-issued United States patents. Click here to read the full article.