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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Sep 22.
Published in final edited form as: Annu Rev Genomics Hum Genet. 2010 Sep 22;11:383–425. doi: 10.1146/annurev-genom-082509-141811

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Instances and outcomes of human gene patent litigation. Christopher Holman searched Lexis-Nexis (http://www.lexis.com) databases and federal court cases for litigated patents that included either the term SEQ ID NO. in the claims or terms used in the DNA Patent Database query in the claims or abstract. He also searched the Westlaw Intellectual Property Docket (http://www.westlaw.com) for litigation involving patents in Jensen & Murray’s patents database (J&M Patents) that included terms from the DNA Patent Database in the abstract. The number of patents identified in J&M Patents is indicated in parentheses (120). Data through April 2007 is from Reference (109) and used with the authors’ permission. Holman’s data do not include the pending case concerning BRCA sequences and testing methods (20, 21A).