1. Association for Molecular Pathology v. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 653 F.3d 1329 (Fed. Cir. 2011)
http://www.patentdocs.org/2011/07/federal-circuit-issues-decision-in-amp-v-uspto.html
(accessed 16 January 2012).
2. Utility Examination Guidelines, 66 Fed. Reg. 1092 (January 5, 2001).
3. US patents are freely available online from a number of sources, such as the US Patent and Trademark Office website (
http://patft.uspto.gov/
) and Google Patent (
http://www.google.com/patents
).
4. Jensen, K. & Murray, F. Science 310, 239–240 (2005).
5. More specifically, they conducted an automated search to identify all US patents reciting the canonical term “SEQ ID NO.” in the claims, and wherein the “SEQ ID NO.” term is used in conjunction with a specific genetic sequence corresponding to a known human gene. Jensen & Murray's Supporting Online Material, available at
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/data/310/5746/239/DC1/1
(last visited January 16, 2012).