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Justices Won't Hear Cancer Research Patent Fight
Law360 (May 24, 2021, 2:20 PM EDT) -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to look into a Federal Circuit ruling that added two American scientists as joint inventors on patents covering Nobel Prize-winning cancer research, handing a victory to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
The justices declined a certiorari petition filed by Bristol-Myers Squibb and Japanese pharma giant Ono Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., in which they argued that scientists Gordon Freeman and Clive Wood didn't make significant contributions toward discovering a protein that later spawned a groundbreaking treatment that uses the body's immune system to treat cancer.