medical-innovation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-1187 Vanda Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Food and Drug Administration, et al. District of Columbia 2025-05-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law agency-discretion drug-approval fda-regulation medical-innovation statutory-interpretation Congress enacted the Fast Track program to speed the development and approval of certain novel therapies. It required FDA to designate "a new drug" as…
19-430 Athena Diagnostics, Inc., et al. v. Mayo Collaborative Services, LLC, dba Mayo Medical Laboratories, et al. Federal Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Amici (11) 35-usc-101 chemical-process chemical-steps diagnostic-method federal-circuit medical-diagnostics medical-innovation molecular-detection novel-molecules patent-eligibility patent-protection precedent subject-matter-eligibility Whether a new and specific method of diagnosing a medical condition is patent-eligible subject matter, where the method detects a molecule never previ…