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Jury awards research hospital $200 million in punitive damages

Published in Vaccine Weekly, July 31st, 2002

Genentech, Inc., said it will appeal a jury verdict ordering it to pay more than $500 million to City of Hope National Medical Center if it can't persuade a Superior Court judge to order a new trial in the intellectual property rights dispute.

The biotech giant was ordered June 24, 2002, to pay City of Hope $200 million in punitive damages. Earlier in June the same jury ordered Genentech to pay the research hospital $300.1 million in compensatory damages.

Jurors found that Genentech failed to pay royalties on some drugs manufactured at City of Hope under the terms of a 1976 agreement.

Sean Johnston, Genentech's vice president of...

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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2002-07-31)

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