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Top 5 Patent Law Blog Posts of the Week

Today we continue our weekly installment highlighting the best of the patent blogosphere from the past week. If there are any patent blogs you think should be highlighted by our Top 5, please comment on this post and we’ll check them out.

1) Patently-O: Gene Patent Debate Returns to the Federal Circuit – This post reports on SCOTUS’ recently issued GVR order in Association for Molecular Pathology v. USPTO and Myriad Genetics (Fed. Cir. 2012). According to the post, “The Federal Circuit has now released a new briefing schedule — asking the parties to file supplemental briefs by June 15, 2012 addressing the issue: What is the applicability of the Supreme Court’s decision in Mayo to Myriad’s isolated DNA claims and to method claim 20 of the ’282 patent?”

2) Green Patent Blog: Clean Energy Patent Growth Index Shows Record High for 2011 – This post shares the findings of the Heslin Rothenberg firm’s Clean Energy Patent Growth Index (CEPGI) 2011 Year in Review, highlighting that granted green patents were at an all time high of 2331 for last year, a rise of 450 patents, or 24%, over 2010. (more…)