Texas uni loses bid to shield cancer vaccine patents from IPRs

The University of Texas (UT) has failed to persuade the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to review a ruling that prevented it from using sovereign immunity to protect its cancer vaccine patents from inter partes reviews (IPRs).

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