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David Alcock of the Patent Attorneys D Young & Co addresses concerns that a recent patent judgment undermines the concept of evergreening, even though Tate & Lyle’s US patents to Sucralose are valid.

Academic entrepreneurs from across Europe were named last night as the winners of the inaugural Academic Enterprise Awards 2008, at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden.

Select companies can still find funding from venture capitalists and the public market; others are using the depressed economy to cut costs.

US genomics firm Myriad Genetics regains limited rights to BRCA1 breast cancer gene on final appeal.

A new “Bretton Woods” should lead to the creation of a World Knowledge Fund with a mission to bridge the global knowledge gap.