Abbott Gets a Brass Ring
Executive Summary
Chiron Corp. has licensed rights to HCV nucleic acid diagnostics to Abbott Laboratories on a semi-exclusive basis for use in clinical applications, excluding blood banking. HCV is one of the most coveted diagnostics tests and Chiron, which holds the patent on has been very cautious about licensing rights; so far, it has licensed immunoassay rights to two companies, two for blood banking only, and nucleic acid rights to Bayer AG. l
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