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Reader Survey: How Has the Recession Impacted Your Patent Practice?

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

By Donald Zuhn -- Earlier this year, we released our annual list of top biotech/pharma stories (see "Top Stories of 2009: #4 to #1"). At the top of our list, we placed the biotech/pharma industry's attempts to recover from the Great Recession. Back in February of 2009, we noted that almost a third of the Biotechnology Industry Organization's membership had less than six months of cash on hand, 45% had less than one year of cash remaining, and only 10% of the 370 publicly-traded biotechnology companies reported a positive income. Last April, the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and PricewaterhouseCoopers...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on March 24, 2010 (boomark / email).