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(Nasdaq: ALNY), a leading RNAi therapeuticscompany, announced today that it has joined with the Max Planck Society intaking legal action toward the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research detroittigers . Alsonamed in the suit are the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and theUniversity of Massachusetts tiger sweatshirt . The complaint, filed in Suffolk County SuperiorCourt in Boston, Massachusetts, alleges that the Whitehead Institute hasbreached its contractual obligations to Max Planck and Alnylam in the manner inwhich it is prosecuting the Tuschl I patent applications and in its fiduciaryduty to all of the co-owners of the Tuschl I patent series yawkey way store . "Despite our exhaustive efforts, the Whitehead Institute, for whose scientificexcellence we have the highest regard, has failed in their business obligationsto Max Planck and Alnylam regarding the proper and successful prosecution of theTuschl I applications tiger sweatshirt .
It is unfortunate that we needed to take this action, butwe are convinced that it is necessary to correct improper and negligentprosecution of the Tuschl I patent applications detroittigers net . We have confidence that thecourt will recognize the merits of our case, and we will continue to take allappropriate actions needed to ensure the proper prosecution of our intellectualproperty rights," said John Maraganore, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer ofAlnylam yawkey way store . "In the meanwhile, as the sole licensee of both the Tuschl I and TuschlII patents in the RNAi therapeutics field, Alnylam`s rights to these patentsremain unchanged and our broad intellectual property position remains unique andunparalleled tiger sweatshirt . Moreover, our efforts remain focused on bringing our innovativemedicines to patients." In the field of RNAi therapeutics, Alnylam is the exclusive licensee of theTuschl I patent applications from Max Planck, MIT, and Whitehead and of theTuschl II patent applications from Max Planck yawkey way store .
To date, the Tuschl I family,whose prosecution is controlled by Whitehead, has resulted in just two patents,in New Zealand and Australia, and an intent to grant in Europe ivan rodriguez . In comparison,numerous patents in the Tuschl II family, whose prosecution is controlled by MaxPlanck, have been issued or granted in 33 countries worldwide, including theU.S., Europe, and Japan tiger sweatshirt . As this matter is now in active litigation, Alnylam and Max Planck will notprovide specific details in response to inquiries on this topic yawkey way store . A copy of thefiled complaint is available on Alnylam`s website at About RNA Interference (RNAi)RNAi (RNA interference) is a revolution in biology, representing a breakthroughin understanding how genes are turned on and off in cells, and a completely newapproach to drug discovery and development . Its discovery has been heralded as"a major scientific breakthrough that happens once every decade or so," andrepresents one of the most promising and rapidly advancing frontiers in biologyand drug discovery today which was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physiologyor Medicine. RNAi is a natural process of gene silencing that occurs inorganisms ranging from plants to mammals.
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