A company that patented a process for using placental tissue as bioimplants has mostly passed Section 101′s natural-phenomenon test.

U.S. District Judge Virginia Emerson Hopkins of the Northern District of Alabama ruled Tuesday that there was sufficient inventive concept in MiMedx Group Inc.’s methods of separating, labeling and reconstituting layers of tissues to render 14 of 17 claims patent eligible.

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