A USPTO legal adviser is off controversial Gilead HIV case after activists allege tweets show bias
Last week, a top legal adviser in the US Patent and Trademark Office working on the high-profile Gilead HIV PrEP case tweeted at Sen Bernie Sanders (I-VT) “What proof????” and then at activists “Do facts even matter to you?”
Now, STAT reports, she’s off of the case.
Activists in the coalition PrEP4All filed a petition to the USPTO on December 9 asking longtime senior legal advisor Mary Till be removed from the Gilead case, saying her tweets showed a bias toward Gilead. PrEP4All requested earlier this month the agency reject Gilead’s three-year patent extension for TAF (tenofovir alafenamide), a component of one of the HIV prevention regimens often referred to as PrEP. They allege the pharma giant delayed developing the drug in order to “game” the system and hold off generics.
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