CAFC vacates decision that invalidated a process patent

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found that a patent covering a process for preserving hepatocytes by multiple freeze-thaw cycles was not directed to a patent-ineligible law of nature, vacating a lower court's decision that had invalidated the patent.

The CAFC decision in Rapid Litigation Management v. CellzDirect, Inc. comes less than two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a lower court's decision that had invalidated a patent owned by Sequenom Inc. (NASDAQ:SQNM) covering a prenatal diagnostic test. ...