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Biotech / Medical : ARIAD Pharmaceuticals -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: kaja who wrote (419)1/4/1999 3:14:00 PM
From: Mike McFarland  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 4474
 
I think if you read back into the thread
you will find some feedback already on that
subject...the question was asked a while ago.
In fact, I brough up AVGN quite a long time
ago on VD's model portfolio thread. AVGN
certainly had a great run...but it may have
something to do with rumors of buyout by CHIR
(pretty sure that was the rumored suitor).
I was tempted to chase avgn, but I never
saw the rumor repeated on biofind, so I let
it go. Getting back to avgn's epo patent,
the PR sounds great, but I wonder--if you
try and read these things, it is pretty
tough to pull out much (if you are not one
of the experts) nevertheless, you could try
here if you want to give it a shot
patents.ibm.com

Anyway, you should also check out the yahoo
thread. Several good posts and some good
banter in the last twenty messages.



To: kaja who wrote (419)1/4/1999 3:18:00 PM
From: Henry Niman  Respond to of 4474
 
I haven't had a chance to read the two patents in detail, but the AVGN patent has a fairly recent filing date, which may cause them problems for broad applications. The ARIA ARGENT patent was filed several years earlier than the AVIR Epo patent (although in the US, lab notebooks will probably carry the day on interference claims).