April 14, 2006
The Implications of a Patent Lawsuit
To the Editor:
Lori B. Andrews's "The Patent Office as Thought Police" (The Chronicle Review, February 17) is fraught with errors of fact and law. No one patented a "basic physiological fact," as she asserts. Rather, the patent is for a two-step process of assaying a body fluid and then correlating the assay result with a disease state.
She goes on to say: "Astonishingly, [the court] held that LabCorp had induced doctors to infringe the patent by publishing the biological fact
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