Possible Legal Battle Over Drug Patent

A medical patent issued last month to inventors from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, and Harvard University has the potential to be the next academic blockbuster, says the company that licensed rights to the invention back in 1991.

But the company, Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc., of Cambridge, Mass., faces at least one formidable legal battle in order for it -- and its academic partners -- to lay claim to any royalty

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