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April 5, 2011 09:09 pm

Patent Troll Going After Alzheimer's Researchers

An anonymous reader sends this excerpt from Nature News:"The website of the Alzheimer's Institute of America (AIA) doesn't reveal much about the organization, but portrays it as committed to supporting research and patients. Among people who study Alzheimer's disease, however, the AIA, based in St Louis, Missouri, is best known for filing lawsuits against companies and researchers — a practice that scientists say could hamper the progress of research into combating the dreaded disease."

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