Comments on: Ariad v Lilly: when will the insanity end? http://pharmaweblog.com/blog/2007/07/11/ariad-v-lilly/ Pharmaceutical and biotech science and business Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:41:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: sclark http://pharmaweblog.com/blog/2007/07/11/ariad-v-lilly/#comment-69 Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:24:13 +0000 http://pharmaweblog.com/blog/2007/07/11/ariad-v-lilly/#comment-69 I agree that it is absurd that Lily's Xigris should be required to make royalty payments for NF-k affects. There are numerous examples of NF-k activity on genes being part of natural processes (cortisol action is such a natural process, eg-Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Vol. 94, pp. 13504-13509, December 1997). I do not understand why the autoregulatory pathway was the focus for this trial. I can easily see how academics can obfuscate with regard to this pathway. They are schooled in veiling concepts in the contrail of word-smithing... (hmmm, maybe I should be more concise and use the 'BS' term?) But either the judge is a real sucker, or Lily lawyers were out-manuevered...? Or maybe, it is similar to a referee in Mexico City calling a soccer/football game between the USA and Mexico, if 'uncertain' (with about 100,000 fans), which way would you rule? But surely the Massachusett court knows NO ONE associated with Harvard, MIT, or Ariad. I agree that it is absurd that Lily’s Xigris should be required to make royalty payments for NF-k affects. There are numerous examples of NF-k activity on genes being part of natural processes (cortisol action is such a natural process, eg-Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Vol. 94, pp. 13504-13509, December 1997). I do not understand why the autoregulatory pathway was the focus for this trial. I can easily see how academics can obfuscate with regard to this pathway. They are schooled in veiling concepts in the contrail of word-smithing… (hmmm, maybe I should be more concise and use the ‘BS’ term?)

But either the judge is a real sucker, or Lily lawyers were out-manuevered…? Or maybe, it is similar to a referee in Mexico City calling a soccer/football game between the USA and Mexico, if ‘uncertain’ (with about 100,000 fans), which way would you rule? But surely the Massachusett court knows NO ONE associated with Harvard, MIT, or Ariad.

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