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Nature Biotechnology 25, 1333–1334 (1 December 2007) | doi:10.1038/nbt1207-1333

Proposed changes to patent code loom over biotech industry

Amy Coombs

In response to a suit filed by London-based GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia issued an injunction on 31 October against proposed changes to the US patent code. The order came just one day before the changes were to take effect, leaving the fate of biotech's much-valued intellectual property (IP) in the court's hands.