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...portion of those royalties. The drug company, however, argued that the patent is invalid because it covers a naturally-occurring biological process. Spokesman Joe Wrinn wrote in an e-mail yesterday that the University is pleased with the jury’s findings. But the biggest winner yesterday was Ariad Pharmaceuticals, a small firm that was exclusively licensed the patent by Harvard, MIT, and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, the other plaintiffs in the case. In the 1980s, scientists from those institutions discovered a method of treating diseases by regulating the activity of a molecule called NF-kB?...
Harvard and three other parties are facing off against pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly in federal court over a patent dispute that could have implications on the validity of certain kinds of biotechnology patents. The University and co-plaintiffs MIT, the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, and Ariad Pharmaceuticals are seeking royalties from two of Eli Lilly’s drugs, Evista and Xigris. The institutions claim the drugs infringe on a patent they were jointly awarded in 2002. The trial began April 10 in U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Closing arguments are scheduled to take place tomorrow...
...work led to the creation of a new pharmaceutical company in Cambridge, Ariad Pharmaceuticals, which has continued work on the possible applications of cyclosporin...
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