Legal Opinion
Ariosa Diagnostics v. Verinata Health, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided November 16, 2015No. 2015-1215, 2015-1226PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TARANTO, Circuit Judge.
Verinata Health, Inc. owns U.S. Patent No. 8,318,430, which describes and claims methods of noninvasive prenatal testing for the presence of fetal chromosomal abnormalities. In particular, the methods may identify “aneuploidy,” i.e., the presence of an abnormal number óf copies of a chromosome — say, three rather than the normal two for chromosome 21, an abnormality that characterizes Down Syndrome. The methods involve obtaining blood samples from several pregnant women; isolating from the samples genomic DNA molecules not contained in cells; choosing particular DNA…
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