Pfizer Opts for Access Over Exclusivity in Antibodies
Executive Summary
For its biggest antibody deal to date, Pfizer choose Medarex, which insists on non-exclusive agreements, leaving the biotech free to work with other partners on any given target. In doing so, Pfizer reckoned that the potential for competition with respect to a particular target was outweighed by the greater access to targets which Medarex's deal model provides.
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