NIH Royalties For Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Lilly Drugs Remain Open Question In Repurposing Initiative
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
With collaborative research agreement templates that include many of the details for a licensing agreement, royalties will be the major issue to be resolved if researchers develop new IP for one of the firm’s abandoned compounds.
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