Patent Docs: Ex parte Kubin (B.P.A.I. 2007)

Patent Docs: Ex parte Kubin (B.P.A.I. 2007): "The Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences recently got its long awaited opportunity to opine on the continued validity of the Federal Circuit's In re Deuel decision in light of the Supreme Court's recent decision in KSR Int'l Co. v. Teleflex Inc. Deuel is widely acknowledged (and decried in the Patent and Trademark Office) as settling 'once and for all' (or at least until now) that isolation of a nucleic acid encoding a 'known' gene is nonobvious."