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FSU's claim to invention rejected by federal appeals court

Published in Drug Week, August 1st, 2003

A team of scientists at Florida State University cannot claim credit for creating three potential cancer-fighting compounds, a federal appeals court has ruled in overturning a lower court's decision in FSU's favor.

A three-judge panel declared that scientists for American Bioscience, Inc., a California company formerly known as VivoRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc., invented the analogs of the anticancer taxane class of compounds and should be named on the patent for them.

Those scientists are Chunlin Tao, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong and Neil Desai.

"The district court erred in its determination of inventorship," the judges ruled. "Tao,...

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Source: Drug Week (2003-08-01)

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