Apr 25, 2022 | Compliance, Legal, and Malpractice, Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology, Laboratory Resources, Laboratory Testing, Precision Medicine
High court decision in 2012 altered patent law and effectively blocked protections for certain clinical laboratory diagnostic tests and procedures Clinical laboratory leaders and pathologists will be interested to learn that a US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) decision from 2012 may be partly to blame for the shortage of at-home COVID-19 rapid antigen tests while the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant surged this past winter. During that time, consumer demand for all COVID-19 at-home tests quickly depleted...