Tuesday, July 20, 2004


Yulex Adds Executives
Carlsbad-based Yulex, which is developing an alternative to latex for medical devices and consumer products, announced that it has added two new executives to its team. Dr. Katrina Cornish has been added as SVP Research & Development, and Edward P. O'Sullivan II has been added as CFO. Cornish joins from the USDA, and O'Sullivan from Nextec Applications Inc.
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Agensys Appoints VP
Santa Monica-based Agensys announced that it has added Martha Vincent, Ph.D., as VP Clinical Research and Development. Dr. Vincent joins from Amgen, where she was most recently VP of Medical Affairs. Agensys is developing cancer antibody therapies, and is backed by Alta Partners, Bear Stearns, BSI AG, Hambrecht & Quist, Orbimed, and others.
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Microsoft, Lindows Settle Trademark Lawsuit
Microsoft and San Diego-based Lindows have settled a trademark lawsuit that Microsoft had brought against Lindows. Microsoft is paying Lindows a total of $20M, and provide Lindows a royalty-free license to certain Windows Media Player components. In exchange, Lindows will completely change the name of the company to Linspire, and remove all references to Lindows in its company, software, documentation, terminate all attempts to trademark Lindows, and will hand over all Lindows-based domain names (More info...)
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