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CareDx v. Natera: Cooked by Boilerplate

On July 18, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a precedential decision invalidating yet more patents directed to diagnostic methods. The case was CareDx, Inc. v. Natera, Inc., No. 2022-1027 (Fed. Cir. July 18, 2022), and the patents at issue related to methods for diagnosing or predicting organ transplant status using various methods…