{"id":6095,"date":"2019-07-19T07:41:11","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T07:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/?p=6095"},"modified":"2025-01-16T22:23:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T22:23:55","slug":"paul-cole-on-athena-diagnostics-v-mayo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/2019\/07\/19\/paul-cole-on-athena-diagnostics-v-mayo\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Cole on Athena Diagnostics v. Mayo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an article published on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipwatchdog.com\/2019\/05\/23\/athena-mayo-paradigm-patent-eligibility-en-banc-review\/id=109522\/\"><em>IP Watchdog<\/em><\/a>, Professor <a href=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/2014\/05\/13\/paul-cole\/\">Paul Cole<\/a> critically examines a recent trend in US courts, lately confirmed in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leagle.com\/decision\/infco20190214136\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Athena Diagnostics v. Mayo Collaborative<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leagle.com\/decision\/infco20190214136\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Services<\/a><\/em>, to play down &#8220;incremental inventions&#8221;, even when they result from pioneering work of world-leading research institutions.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe\u00a0<em>Mayo\/Alice<\/em>\u00a0framework needs reconsideration to place pioneering or breakthrough inventions and incremental inventions on a level playing field. No such disadvantage is imposed on inventors in Europe and there is no credible policy justification for such illogical and harsh treatment.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full article and the forum discussion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipwatchdog.com\/2019\/05\/23\/athena-mayo-paradigm-patent-eligibility-en-banc-review\/id=109522\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article published on\u00a0IP Watchdog, Professor Paul Cole critically examines a recent trend in US courts, lately confirmed in Athena Diagnostics v. Mayo Collaborative Services, to play down &#8220;incremental inventions&#8221;, even when they result from pioneering work of world-leading research institutions. \u201cThe\u00a0Mayo\/Alice\u00a0framework needs reconsideration to place pioneering or breakthrough inventions and incremental inventions on&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/2019\/07\/19\/paul-cole-on-athena-diagnostics-v-mayo\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about Paul Cole on Athena Diagnostics v. Mayo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":842,"featured_media":2329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-6095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knowledge-exchange","category-uncategorized","tag-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/842"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6095"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6102,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6095\/revisions\/6102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}