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...drugs, Evista and Xigris, infringed on a 2002 patent—a ruling that could have implications for other drug makers in the industry. Eli Lilly must pay the plaintiffs damages of $65.2 million, as well as additional royalties based on future sales of the two drugs until the patent expires in 2019, the jury ruled. Harvard will receive a 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?...
...with a couple of roles. Gradually, he became a presence in the drama scene, garnering larger parts. For Burkle, playing Hedwig in “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” as a sophomore was an important step in his acting education. “Wearing 8-inch patent leather boots and being a transvestite and being naked at the end of the play was a little bit different than Ohio,” he says. “That was jumping into the deep end,” he adds. “I wasn?...
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...
...available for public use. “For too long we have allowed our science to remain within the walls of academic institutions,” he said in the opening keynote address of a conference hosted at the Kennedy School of Government. Achmat expressed frustration with the American patent system. He acknowledged Harvard’s “special place” in work on AIDS, but he argued it should license its intellectual property more widely. He urged the audience to “appeal to [university administrators’] good conscience; I believe they have...
Woolston, for his part, vows to fight eBay regardless of the Supreme Court verdict. One of his rejected patents was reinstated on appeal, he says, and he plans to sue eBay again. An eBay spokesman says the company has a workaround should Woolston get an injunction. Suffice it to say, this is one patent war that won't end soon...