{"id":9628,"date":"2020-03-17T10:20:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T14:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=3516eb404c3ad58a6ca3e174b23d54f0"},"modified":"2020-03-17T10:20:48","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T14:20:48","slug":"firm-wielding-theranos-patents-asks-judge-to-block-coronavirus-test-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=9628","title":{"rendered":"Firm wielding Theranos patents asks judge to block coronavirus test [Updated]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Ars Technica<\/a><\/p>\n

Article note: How to get caught being a patent-trolling scumbag: Use the remnants of a discredited biotech huckster to threaten firms working on a public health crisis.<\/div>
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Back in 2018, the disgraced biotech company Theranos sold its patent portfolio<\/a> to Fortress Investment Group, a division of Softbank. Now two of those patents have wound up in the hands of a little-known firm called Labrador Diagnostics—and Labrador is suing<\/a> a company called BioFire Diagnostics that makes medical testing equipment.<\/p>\n

And not just any medical testing equipment: BioFire recently announced<\/a> it had developed three tests for COVID-19 using its hardware—tests that are due out later this month. But Labrador is asking a Delaware federal court to block the company from using its technology—presumably including the new coronavirus tests.<\/p>\n

As Stanford patent scholar Mark Lemley puts it<\/a>, \"this could be the most tone-deaf IP suit in history.\"<\/p><\/div>

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