The Institute of Environmental Science and Research and NicheVision Inc.'s motion to dismiss, in Cybergenetics Corp.'s action for the infringement of two patents titled “Method and System for DNA Mixture Analysis,” was granted by a federal district court in Ohio. The court first found that under step one of the test from Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank Int’l the claims in Cybergentics’ patents are directed to using mathematical algorithms to compute variance and then account for that variance in other mathematical algorithms to identify a particular person in a mixed-person DNA sample — an abstract idea. The court ...
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