Business · 08/08/2011Updated: 10/17/2026 · 1 min read

National Institutes of Health to Consider Exclusive Patent License for Cancer Treatment

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The National Institutes of Health is issuing a notice of its intention to grant an exclusive patent license to practice certain cancer treatments, based on inventions described in several abandoned patent applications filed between 2008 and 2011.

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