Genentech Inc. (South San Francisco, CA) has been ordered to pay City of Hope National Medical Center (COM) (Duarte, CA) about 300 million dollar in additional royalties for breach of a 1976 agreement between the two groups. The jury will decide nextweek what, if any, punitive damages to award COM. The dispute centers on patents on a technique for producing human'insulin. COM developed it and Genentech acquired the patents in exchange for royalties. In its suit, COH said that Genentech owed it royalties from deals Genentech made to license the patents to other companies and that it tried to hide those deals. This is the second time this has gone to trial. The first trial ended in a hung jury. Genentech said it will not address the issue of appealuntil all proceedings in the trial are conducted.
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