Kite must pay $1.2bn for infringing CAR-T patent

A California federal judge has issued a final award of $1.2 billion in damages to Bristol-Myers Squibb subsidiary Juno Therapeutics in its patent infringement dispute with Gilead’s Kite Pharma.

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