Replies to post #104068 on Biotech Values

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We know that proprietary restriction enzymes are an obligate part of MNTA’s characterization technology. Is there a practical workaround to allow a competitor to produce its own restriction enzymes without infringing MNTA’s patent? I don’t know.

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…this patent…seems to suffer from one of the defects that Momenta claims the Copaxone patents suffer from: indefiniteness due to the failure to adequately define a key term. Namely the same term of "average molecular weight." Anyone see this differently?

In the Copaxone case, NVS/MNTA’s argument that average molecular weight is not well-defined did not make any headway with Judge Jones, who ruled that the meaning of the term is clear to those practiced in the art. So this is likely not a problem in MNTA’s own patent.