Pharma giant Allergan pays Mohawk tribe to serve as human shields against patent challenges
by Cory Doctorow from on (#32214)
Allergan has disclosed that it transferred title to six of its contested eye drug patents to the St Regis Mohawk band in upstate New York, in a bid to use the band's sovereign immunity to prevent generic pharma companies from dragging the company into court to show that its patents are invalid. -