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	Ariad Patent Dead

Matthew Herper

4-9-2009 3:41 PM

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Matthew Herper says:

Derek Lowe does a dance of joy.

Eli Lilly had compared the patent in question to "patenting gravity." Ariad basically described some basic biology, then hand-waved the potential drugs that could affect it.

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