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16 July 2020BiotechnologyDavid Fyfield

How patents for transgenic mice got caught in a sufficiency trap

In a blow for  Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, the  UK Supreme Court has reversed a  Court of Appeal decision by ruling that its patents relating to transgenic mice are invalid due to lack of “sufficiency”.

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