Article: Weil Gotshal litigators victorious in multi-billion dollar Erbitux patent case.

The closely watched patent dispute involving some of the leading cancer researchers in the world concluded in complete victory for Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP 's (New York, NY) client Yeda Research & Development Co., Ltd. The case concerns a dispute as to who invented the subject matter of a key patent covering the use of ImClone's anti-cancer drug Erbitux. Yeda argued that three Israeli scientists, Prof. Michael Sela, Dr. Esther Hurwitz and Dr. Esther Pirak, were the true inventors and that the individuals named on the patent had not in fact contributed to the invention.

Following a three-week bench trial, the United States District Court for the Southern ...

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