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Biotech/Pharma Docket

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Suresh Pillai -- Court Denies Bid for Bench Trial in RNAi Patent Suit The U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts has denied the bid of defendants Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, the University of Massachusetts, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to have the merits of their patent dispute with plaintiffs Max Planck Institute and Max Planck licensee Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. decided in a bench trial. The dispute concerns patent applications filed with both the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the European Patent Office. According to the plaintiffs' amended complaint, the named inventors assigned their...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on February 18, 2010 (boomark / email).