Justice Breryer said the Prometheus patents did little more than claim an exclusive right to observe the natural phenomenon of how the human body reacts to ingesting certain drugs. Any additional inventive steps claimed by the patents "consist of well-understood, routine, conventional activity already engaged in by the scientific community," he wrote in a 24-page opinion.
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