(Dallas, TX. – October 21, 2011) StockGuru Shines its Spotlight on Novelos Therapeutics, Inc. (OTCBB: NVLT). The Company is a pharmaceutical company developing novel drugs for treatment and diagnosis of cancer. It closed on October 20, 2011, at $0.60, trading up twenty percent and in a fifty-two week range of $9.027 – 0.3322.
It announced October 18, 2011, that on October 17, 2011, Judge Judith Fabricant granted Novelos’ motion for judgment on the pleadings in the action brought in the Business Litigation Session of the Massachusetts Superior Court for Suffolk County entitled Novelos Therapeutics, Inc. v. ZAO BAM and ZAO BAM Research Laboratories (Civil Action No. 10-3801-BLS1).
Novelos brought this action in September 2010 seeking a declaration by the court that a June 2000 agreement by which the defendants assigned to Novelos their rights in various technologies, including an oxidized glutathione compound known as NOV-002, had been replaced by an agreement executed in April 2005, that Novelos’ obligations to the defendants are governed solely by the April 2005 agreement and that Novelos’ obligations under the June 2000 agreement have been performed. The defendants denied the material allegations and brought eight counterclaims, including a claim that Novelos had fraudulently induced the defendants to enter into the April 2005 agreement and that the defendants were entitled to the return of the technology assigned to Novelos under the June 2000 agreement.
Judge Fabricant’s order of October 17 granted judgment on Novelos’ behalf for each of its declaratory judgment claims and dismissed all counts of the defendants’ counterclaim. Judge Fabricant concluded that the “clear and unambiguous” April 2005 agreement “supersedes all prior agreements between the parties, expressly including the 2000 contract.” Judge Fabricant further concluded that the defendants had not identified any fraudulent statements or conduct by Novelos and that the defendants had not alleged any breach of the June 2000 agreement or the April 2005 agreement during the time either agreement was in effect.
About Novelos Therapeutics, Inc.
We are a pharmaceutical company developing novel drugs for the treatment and diagnosis of cancer. We currently have three cancer-targeted compounds, which are selectively taken up and retained in cancer cells (including cancer stem cells) versus normal cells. Thus, our therapeutic compounds directly kill cancer cells while minimizing harm to normal cells. This offers the potential for a paradigm shift in cancer therapy — efficacy versus all three major drivers of mortality in cancer: primary tumors, metastases and stem cell-based relapse. LIGHT is a small-molecule cancer imaging agent.
We believe LIGHT has first-in-class potential and expect it to enter Phase 1/2 clinical trials in the fourth quarter of this year. HOT is a small-molecule, broad-spectrum, cancer-targeted molecular radiotherapeutic that delivers radiation directly and selectively to cancer cells and cancer stem cells. We believe HOT also has first-in-class potential, and we expect it to enter a Phase 1b dose escalation trial in the fourth quarter of this year, and Phase 2 trials in 2012 as a monotherapy for solid tumors with significant unmet medical need. COLD, a cancer-targeted chemotherapy that we expect to enter clinical trials late in 2012, works primarily through Akt inhibition. Together, we believe our compounds are able to “find, treat and follow” cancer anywhere in the body in a novel, effective and highly selective way. For additional information please visit www.novelos.com
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