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  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • November 28, 2006
    An article by Anne Broache on a U.S. Supreme Court case that has, in her words, the attention of pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms:

    ``U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared to take issue with the current legal standard for granting patents, which many high-tech firms claim is ineffective at weeding out inventions that should be obvious.

    ``During hour-long oral arguments in a case that's closely watched by the business community, Chief Justice John Roberts suggested that an existing federal court test for determining patent obviousness relied too little on common sense. Justice Antonin Scalia went so far as to call the test `gobbledygook' and `meaningless.'''

    Full story:
    http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6138969.html

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