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NYC Parks Unveils New $4.2 Million
The Supreme Court Has
Weakened U.S. Patents, And Waterfront Recreation Space at

Congress Must Act Sunset Cove in Broad Channel

By Howard Dean
The Supreme Court has handed down momentous deci-
sions over the past two decades on a variety of hot-button
issues. But some of the most consequential rulings -- for
our physical well-being, our economic vitality, and even our
national security -- have flown under the radar.
For years, the justices have steadily chipped away at long-
standing intellectual property rights. By doing so, they’ve
unintentionally stymied investment into critical industries,
from medical diagnostics to artificial intelligence, that will
determine our health, wealth, and security for much of the
21st century.
Take, for instance, Mayo Collaborative Services v.
Prometheus Laboratories. Prometheus Labs had sued the
Mayo Clinic for violating a patent on a diagnostic test for
gastrointestinal disease. The Supreme Court ruled in 2012
that the Mayo Clinic had, in fact, infringed Prometheus’
patent -- but also ruled that the Prometheus technology was
ineligible for patenting because it measured a naturally oc-
curring process, even though the test itself was clearly novel.
Mayo caused investors to reduce their funding for U.S. $4.2 million project has created a new outdoor classroom and installed a boardwalk built
medical diagnostics companies by billions of dollars in the with reclaimed wood from Sandy-destroyed Rockaway Boardwalk. See story on page 9.
years following the Court’s ruling. That drop helps explain

Queens DA Melinda Katz Donates Her
(Continued on page 2)
The Newly Released Census Data Father’s Piano to Queens College
Reveals That The Third Largest

Group in The US is Irish

Pictured from left to right are Iemma; Li; Moreira; Katz; Wu; School of Music Chair Michael
According to the 2020 Cen- listed as “White alone or in any Lipsey; and Donald Perrone, professor of piano performance. Credit De’Shaun Bayne.
sus Data the Irish is the third other combination” the Irish is the
largest group in the US, newly third-largest group in the category At a recent reception at School of Music. David Katz performed in Colden Audito-
released Census data has revealed. in the US, followed by English Queens College, emceed by founded and conducted the rium, a venue in the college’s
38,597,428 people said they were (46.5 million) and German (44.9 President Frank H. Wu, recog- Queens Symphony Orchestra Kupferberg Center for the Arts.
Irish alone or in any combination million). Italian (16.8 million), nized District Attorney Melinda (QSO), the only professional Music students Ricky Moreira,
during the 2020 Census, making Polish (8.5 million), and Scottish Katz for donating her late father orchestra in the borough; the Binghao Li, and Donovan Iemma
up 16.4 percent of the overall (8.4 million) make up the top five. David Katz’s Concert Grand donation commemorates his performed selections from the
White alone or in combination Irish is also the third-largest group Steinway to the college. The efforts to make classical music works of Beethoven, Granados,
population in the US. piano will be used by students more accessible to communities and Mozart, respectively, on the
Under the groups that are (Continued on page 2) in the college’s Aaron Copland in Queens. For many years, QSO newly donated piano.
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