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Biotech / Medical : Napro Biotherap(npro) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: mwj6 who wrote (401)9/18/2000 12:04:12 PM
From: caly  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 478
 
Thanks for the heads up with those links.

Today's news...

Monday September 18, 11:27 am Eastern Time

Press Release

NaPro BioTherapeutics Files Patent Infringement Suit Relating to TAXOL Against Bristol-Myers Squibb Corporation

BOULDER, Colo.--(BW HealthWire)--Sept. 18, 2000--NaPro BioTherapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: NPRO - news) today announced that it has filed a patent infringement suit, together with its licensee, Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT - news), in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado against Bristol-Myers Squibb Corporation (NYSE: BMY - news).

The suit alleges infringement of U.S. Patent numbers 5,972,992 and 5,977,164 which relate to paclitaxel, the active ingredient in Bristol-Myers Squibb's anticancer drug, TAXOL®.

NaPro BioTherapeutics, Inc., headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, with additional manufacturing and plantation operations in British Columbia, Canada, is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development, production and licensing of complex natural-product pharmaceuticals