A Bitter Battle Over Insulin Gene

摘要

The University of California (UC) is learning the hard way that it can be dangerous to charge into court to champion a faculty member's invention. A bruising 7-year patent battle between the university and Eli Lilly and Company resulted last month ina multimillion-dollar setback for the university. Along the way in this high-stakes legal brawl, the scientific integrity of prominent researchers who worked at UC, San Francisco (UCSF) in the 1970s took a battering from Lilly's lawyers, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist advising the company, and a federal judge.