assaying a body fluid
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From 548 U.S. 124 - Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings v. Metabolite Laboratories, Inc. · 2006Most cited · 223 citing opinions
the use of any test at all, whether patented or not patented, that determines whether a body fluid has an "elevated level of total homocysteine." And at trial, the inventors testified that claim 13's "correlating" step consists simply of a physician's recognizing that a test that shows an elevated homocysteine level—by that very fact—shows the patient likely has a cobalamin or folate deficiency.