Before a courtroom packed Wednesday with attorneys and company officials, Utah-based Myriad Genetics again defended its patents related to genes linked to breast and ovarian cancer from a new assault by two competitors hoping to move in on its lucrative area of genetic testing.
A bit less than three months after a U.S. Supreme Court decision invalidated several parts of Myriad patents related to the so-called BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, Myriad was back in a federal courtroom asking a judge to prohibit two competitors from offering diagnostic DNA tests that detect mutations related to a high probability of contracting hereditary breast and ovarian cancers.
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