Biotechnology Compliance & Litigation: Powell Goldstein LLP, Law Firm

Biotechnology Compliance & Litigation

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Life Sciences and Biotechnology Client Alert
August 19, 2005

Michael H. Chanin

Recent activities of interest to biotechnology companies include initial Congressional action to overturn a Small Business Administration interpretation that limited SBA funding and a Court of Appeals decision that could increase risk and costs where patent protection is being sought for a solution to a problem that is one of several competing solutions.