Nature News Blog: Lawsuit dismissal removes cloud over Alzheimer's research

"In a move that researchers called a victory for science, a lawsuit that threatened scientists who use mouse models in Alzheimer’s research has been dismissed. In February 2010, the Alzheimer’s Institute of America (AIA) in Kansas City, Kansas, filed a lawsuit against the Jackson Laboratory of Bar Harbor Maine, and other institutes and companies. The suit claimed that Jackson Lab and the other defendants had infringed on patents covering a genetic mutation that causes early-onset Alzheimer’s disease...."