Liberatore, L. v. Monongahela Railway Company

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• noting that a court may also take judicial notice of prosecution histories, which are public records
• finding that when the patent claim focuses on a newly discovered fact about human biology, the claim is directed to unpatentable subject matter
• holding ineligible the claimed process for using PCR to amplify genomic DNA in a sample before detecting it
• assessing “the focus of the claimed advance over the prior art” in the step one inquiry
• determining patent validity based on the pleadings because “there is no claim construction dispute relevant to the eligibility issue”
• rejecting claim where it recited methods for detecting a coding region of DNA based on its relationship to non-coding regions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).