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Nature 407, 128 (14 September 2000) | doi:10.1038/35025286
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Patent dispute hangs over kringle 5
Judah Folkman1
- Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave , Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Sir — In June you published a News brief relating to a suit brought by Abbott Laboratories against Children's Hospital in Boston and against me and two of my younger associates1. The suit asserted rights to a patent assigned to Children's Hospital on an endothelial and angiogenesis inhibitor called kringle 5 which was discovered in the hospital's laboratories.
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