He alluded to the fabled balm of Gilead, a balsamic medicinal ointment prized in the ancient world, produced in what is now northern Jordan. Balm was a metaphor for spiritual healing. Jeremiah is ...

2. Gilead Scis. v. Natco Pharma Ltd. This classical application of the OTDP doctrine prevailed until Gilead Scis. v. Natco Pharma Ltd., 753 F.3d 1208 (Fed. Cir. 2014). The patents at issue in ...

The usual sullen calm lay last week over the Biblical lands of Gilead, Moab and Ammon where King David once fought Absalom and where the British Crown now rules the mandated territory of Transjordan.

They grew it in an Israeli greenhouse, and it is now a 10-foot tree that produces a clear resin researchers say could be the biblical “balm of Gilead.” The famous balm, or tsori in Hebrew ...