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Karen J. Axt

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  • Litigation
  • Intellectual Property
 
University University of Pennsylvania, B.A., Biology, 1982; University of Chicago, Ph.D., Pharmacology, 1988; Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Postdoctoral, Neuroscience, 1988-1991
 
Law SchoolGeorge Mason University School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2001
 
Admitted2002, New York
 
Memberships Federal Circuit and American Bar Associations; American Intellectual Property Law Association; International Intellectual Property Association; New York Academy of Sciences.
 
BornLansing, Michigan
 
Biography

Dean's List, 1981-1982. Best Appellate Brief, 1999. Member, Federal Circuit Bar Journal.

 
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Federal Circuit Holds Isolated DNA Is Statutory Subject Matter Under s101
Karen J. Axt, September 27, 2011
In a decision long awaited by the biotechnology industry, the Federal Circuit has held that claims to isolated DNA are patent-eligible subject matter under 35 USC §101 as compositions of matter that do not occur in nature, reversing the lower court ruling. Assoc. Molec. Pathol. v. USPTO...

Federal Circuit Opens Reissue Proceedings to Add New Claims to Hedege Against Patent Invalidity
Karen J. Axt, September 27, 2011
Reissue is an appropriate means to add a narrower dependent claim, according to the April 15, 2011, Federal Circuit decision In re Tanaka, even if the original claims are retained unchanged. The Federal Circuit held that a patentee is permitted to "hedge" against possible invalidity...

Prometheus Redux
Karen J. Axt, September 27, 2011
The Supreme Court, for a second time, granted a petition for certiorari in Mayo Collaborative Serv. v. Prometheus Labs Inc., No. 10-1150, on June 20, 2011, thereby vacating the Federal Circuit's December 17, 2010, opinion (628 F.3d 1347) which had been decided on remand for reconsideration in light...

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Karen J. Axt
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

New York, NY 10281-0006




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