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Nature Medicine 6, 948 (2000)
doi:10.1038/79613
Folkman countersuit attacks "fraudulent" Abbott
Kristine Novak1
- New York
In a vicious counter-attack, the Children's Hospital of Boston has countersued Abbott Laboratories for defamation and conspiracy, accusing the Illinois pharmaceutical giant of implementing a fraudulent scheme to obtain the patent rights to anti-angiogenic agents studied in the laboratory of Judah Folkman.The 47-page legal document was filed with the District Court of Massachusetts in response to a lawsuit filed by Abbott last May, which claimed that Folkman, along with co-workers Yihai Cao and Michael O'Reilly, stole Abbott's discovery of the anti-angiogenic fragment of plasminogen known as Kringle 5 (Nature Med 6, 723, 2000).
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