United States Federal Circuit

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board's rejection of claimant's assigned patent claims to mammal clones is affirmed, where: 1) the clone's genetic identity to her donor parent renders it unpatentable; 2) the claims do not describe clones that have markedly different characteristics from the donor animals of which they are copies; and 3) the distinction that the clones are time-delayed versions of their donor mammals cannot confer patentability.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/08/2014
• Published 05/08/2014

Judges

• DYK

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel