Legal Opinion
Institut Pasteur v. The United States
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided March 9, 1987No. Appeal 86-1541PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ARCHER, Circuit Judge.
Instituí Pasteur appeals from the grant by the United States Claims Court 1 of summary judgment against it and in favor of the United States. We reverse and remand.
Background
In early 1983, Instituí Pasteur (Pasteur) scientists in France, led by Dr. Luc Mon-tagriier, the head of Pasteur’s viral oncology unit, isolated and identified a virus which they called Lymphadenopathy Associated Virus (LAV) and which they believed to be the cause of the disease known as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).
On September 15, 1983, Dr. Montagnier filed a patent application in the…
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