Supreme court vacates ruling on BRCA gene patent!

As Reeves alluded to in his post about the Mayo personalized medicine case, the Supreme Court just vacated the lower court’s ruling in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics (No. 11-725). The case has been sent back down to the Federal Circuit for reconsideration in light of the Court’s decision in Mayo.  This means that the Supreme Court thought the two cases were sufficiently similar that the lower courts should take another look using the new direction from Mayo.

 It’s looking more and more like the Supreme Court is strongly opposed to personalized medicine patents.