March 15, 2011
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. and a German research organization on Tuesday settled their contract suit against a Massachusetts-based biomedical research group and a college trustee board over the prosecution of two families of RNA interference patent applications.
February 08, 2011
A federal judge has approved the University of Massachusetts' bid to trim a claim from a suit over RNA interference patents from Max Planck Institute and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.
June 14, 2010
The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and the University of Massachusetts have won a partial dismissal of the Max Planck Institute's lawsuit over the licensing of RNA interference patents, though a federal judge left breach of contract and other claims against the defendants intact.
February 26, 2010
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Max Planck Institute have filed a joint motion to dismiss the university from Max Planck's suit over RNA interference patents, following MIT's agreement to be bound by any declaratory judgment against its co-defendants.
February 11, 2010
A magistrate judge has denied a bid by the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Massachusetts to strike the Max Planck Institute's demand for a jury in a suit over the licensing of RNA interference patents worth millions.