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Investments

Jan. 28, 2012

Patent reform could keep investors out of small biotech companies

Patent reform has given small biotechnology startups exactly what they don't need right now: a dose of added uncertainty.


By Mandy Jackson


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Patent reform has given small biotechnology startups exactly what they don't need right now: a dose of added uncertainty.


The America Invents Act of 2011, with its switch from a first-to-invent to a first-to-file patent system and opportunities for pre-litigation challenges at the patent office, favors big pharmaceutical and medical device companies with millions - or even billions of dollars - ...

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