ROCHESTER UNIVERSITY CASE
March 1st, 2003
BY PHILIP FINE
A SMALL private college in upstate New York, USA, has lost a patent case against
two pharmaceutical heavy-hitters. Three years ago the University of
Rochester sued Pharmacia and Pfizer, seeking royalties on the popular
painkiller, Celebrex. The university cited its own patent that treated pain
and inflammation by inhibiting the Cox-2 enzyme. But a federal judge
dismissed the suit, saying the university neither developed the drug nor
specified sufficiently how such a drug could be developed. The decision is a
big blow to the university, ...
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