{"id":49831,"date":"2015-09-03T07:30:56","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T11:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=49831"},"modified":"2015-09-03T09:04:14","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T13:04:14","slug":"biogen-patent-survives-challenge-by-hedge-fund-manager-bass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2015\/biogen-patent-survives-challenge-by-hedge-fund-manager-bass.html","title":{"rendered":"Biogen Patent Survives Challenge By Hedge Fund Manager Bass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) In another setback for prominent hedge fund manager Kyle Bass and his campaign to eliminate some drug patents, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Wednesday declined to hold a trial on the validity of a patent on Biogen Inc&#8217;s multiple sclerosis drug Tecfidera. Last month the patent office also declined reviews requested by Bass and his Coalition for Affordable Drugs on two Acorda Therapeutics Inc patents. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/biogen-patent-survives-challenge-hedge-fund-manager-kyle-152910490--sector.html;_ylt=AwrC1CqoNedVKyMAUhTQtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTBydWNmY2MwBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwM0BHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzcg--\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) In another setback for prominent hedge fund manager Kyle Bass and his campaign to eliminate some drug patents, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Wednesday declined to hold a trial on the validity of a patent on Biogen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49832,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49831\/revisions\/49832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}