GeneDx and Law Professors, Amici Curiae
Aaron X. Fellmeth, Counsel of Record
GeneDx is a diagnostic laboratory that was started for the purpose of providing molecular diagnoses for patients and families with rare and ultra-rare hereditary disorders. It is joined in this brief by Arizona State University law professors Linda J. Demaine, Dennis Karjala, and Aaron X. Fellmeth, who also serves as counsel of record for this brief. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for Petitioners as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on January 30, 2013. The U.S. Constitution grants Congress no power to issue patents on products of nature, nor has Congress sought to exercise such a…