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Intellectual Property

Aug. 30, 2014

La Jolla law firm helps Ebola drug maker amid outbreak

Optima Law Group APC's longtime client Mapp Biopharmaceutical, Inc. is the producer of the drug being used to treat several health care workers who contracted the deadly virus in west Africa.


By Kibkabe Araya


Daily Journal Staff Writer


When the latest Ebola outbreak hit western Africa this summer, stocks for Tekmira Pharmaceutical Corp. and BioCryst Pharmaceuticals Inc. skyrocketed with investors hoping they put their money on the companies providing the "secret serum" that would be used to save the lives of two American missionaries working in the hot zone.


But that distinction ultimately went to Mapp Biopharmaceutical ...

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