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...battle: the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office acknowledged that they indeed had a rival claim to the blood-test patent and were entitled to a formal hearing. Moreover, the Patent Office recognized the French as the "senior party," since their patent application was filed seven months earlier than the NIH application. Now, says Charles Lipsey, a patent attorney for Pasteur, "the burden of proving that they invented the test first is going to rest on Dr. Gallo...
...French and American viruses. Gallo insists that his virus is too genetically distinct to have been derived from the French strain. But according to James Swire, an attorney for Pasteur, "there is a body of scientific opinion" that disagrees. Swire has been seeking lab notebooks and memos from the NIH, under the Freedom of Information Act. So far, he says, "we've found lots of things that strengthen our complaint and nothing that damages it." Among the findings: a photograph illustrating one of Gallo's key papers on the discovery of the virus actually depicted the Pasteur strain. The mistake...
Enter Jeremy Rifkin, who with several allies filed suit in a federal court, charging that NIH, in granting its approval, had failed to prepare environmental-impact statements. At hearings conducted by Federal Judge John Sirica, Rifkin and a few scientists who supported his view pointed to the troubles caused in the U.S. by the introduction of foreign organisms...
Still, Rifkin won the day. In May 1984 Judge Sirica issued an injunction against the Tulelake test on the ground that NIH had not followed the required procedure in granting its approval...
Columbia has temporarily halted all non-rodent animal research at its facilities. Some animals have been moved to other laboratories, which will continue to receive NIH funds...