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Judge Dismisses Gensetix’s Latest Suit on TCPA Grounds

A Texas state judge has dismissed with prejudice a lawsuit that claimed a cancer researcher conspired with Baylor College of Medicine and a research firm, Diakanos Research Ltd., to interfere with licenses the plaintiff held with the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. 

The cancer researcher, Dr. William Decker, was previously employed with UT before he moved to Baylor. The plaintiff is Houston-based Gensetix, which is the exclusive licensee for a couple patents tied to immuno-cancer therapies owned by UT that Dr. Decker invented while working there. 

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