{"id":3506,"date":"2012-03-20T19:22:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T00:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3506"},"modified":"2012-03-20T19:22:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T00:22:35","slug":"supreme-court-saves-medical-profession-from-diagnostic-patents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3506","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court saves medical profession from diagnostic patents"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The prospect of allowing patents on what amounts to human thought prompted a broad range of interest groups, including the ACLU, the Cato Institute (disclosure: I contributed to Cato&#8217;s brief in the case), and the American Medical Association, to file briefs urging the Supreme Court to invalidate the patent. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court did so in a unanimous vote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/news\/2012\/03\/supreme-court-saves-medical-profession-from-diagnostic-patents.ars\">Supreme Court saves medical profession from diagnostic patents<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prospect of allowing patents on what amounts to human thought prompted a broad range of interest groups, including the ACLU, the Cato Institute (disclosure: I contributed to Cato&#8217;s brief in the case), and the American Medical Association, to file &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3506\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-3506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","tag-patents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3507,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions\/3507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}