Replies to post #128542 on Biotech Values

[mouton29]

Also, it isn't stealing to use a patent for purposes reasonably related to filing an FDA application

[HattieTheWitch]

'Steal' implies industrial espionage and/or willfullness that probably is not there - for instance MNTA's patents weren't even published until 2009 and 2010.

Well...

According to pollyvonwog, what I suspect may have been "stealing" took place in 2010:

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=67825965

"Apparently amphastar changed a step in their process after MNTA was approved."

[RockRat]

No, sir. '466 app filed January of '08, with provisional app in January '07. '886 Filed in March '03, provisional forms in '02. Provisional apps may just have been placeholders with no info, but my understanding is publication in full as an application follows the filing date fairly closely -- not the issue date as a patent.

Though personally, methinks the claims in the '466 patent give the highest win odds to MNTA, based on what appears to be a focus in the latest court filings on the 1,6 anhydro ring.

Regards, RockRat