Pharming denies involvement in alleged stealing of CSL Behring IP

Dutch specialty pharma company Pharming Group (Euronext: PHARM) has been named in an injunction secured in the USA by CSL Behring over the alleged stealing of proprietary information.

The blood products and vaccines specialist, which is part of Australia’s CSL Limited (ASX: CSL), is seeking to prevent the possible transmission of documents and data to Pharming which – the allegations state – were removed from its systems by Joseph Chiao.

Until last month, Dr Chiao was the therapeutic head of hereditary angioedema (HAE) for CSL Behring, but he resigned and became a medical director at Pharming, another drugmaker which is active in the HAE space.