Advaxis prevails in Anza patent challenge

19 January 2009

The European Patent Court in Munich, Germany, has ruled in favor of US vaccine developer Advaxis and reversed a patent challenge made by Anza  Therapeutics, formerly Cerus Corp. The Court's ruling is final and  cannot be appealed. The challenge was made against elements of a patent  filed, and subsequently published in 1994, by Yvonne Paterson,  scientific founder of Advaxis. The patent describes the use of bacteria  to deliver an antigen and generate an anti-tumor immune response.

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