The Nation : AIDS Patent Pact Reached

American and French AIDS researchers, and their governments, have settled a legal dispute over patent rights involving AIDS antibody tests, sources told the Associated Press. An end to the disagreement is expected to be announced today by President Reagan and French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac, who is in the United States, according to sources who spoke on condition they not be identified. While details of the agreement were not revealed, sources said it would end the lawsuit filed by scientists at the Pasteur Institute in Paris over a patent on an AIDS test developed by U.S. scientists.