SYDNEY--20 Dec--AsiaNet/InfoQuestLIPITOR PATENT... NEW YORK: Pfizer Inc said that the Australian Federal Courtin Victoria has upheld the exclusivity of its basic patentcovering atorvastatin, the active ingredient in Lipitor. Theruling, the culmination of a lawsuit filed in 2005 by genericdrug manufacturer Ranbaxy, includes an injunction againstRanbaxy's product and preserves Lipitor's patent coverage inAustralia through May 2012. www.prnewswire.com/comp/688250.html www.pfizer.com PUBLIC OFFERING... SHANGHAI, and ATLANTA: Middle Kingdom Alliance Corp.announced the closing of the Company's initial public offeringof 198,000 Series A units and 3,300,000 Series B units. www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1360244/000119312506253530 CUSTOM HOUSE... Bangkok: Peter Gustavson, FCA, President and CEO of CustomHouse announced that the company has launched the first phaseof a foreign exchange project with Thailand's GovernmentSavings Bank. BIOVISION 2007... LYON: BioVision has confirmed its broad ranging schedule forthe fifth edition of BioVision, the World Life Sciencesforum. www.biovision.org www.biovision-blog.org www.biovision.org/press_room.htm DRIVESOL WORLDWIDE... TROY, Michigan: DriveSol Worldwide, Inc., an affiliate ofSun Capital Partners, Inc., announced that it has acquired theassets of Timken Company's Global Steering Business. www.drivesol.com www.timken.com LA MANCHA... VANCOUVER: La Mancha Resources announces the results fromeight additional diamond drill holes at the Company's Frog'sLeg project in Western Australia. http://files.newswire.ca/560/LongSection.pdf FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$250million on December 29, 2006 at a redemption price equal to 100per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest. www.fanniemae.com ATMEL MICROCONTROLLERS... SAN JOSE, California: Atmel Corporation has announced fournew AVR microcontrollers that incorporate power-savingtechnology for multi-year battery life in LCD, lightingcontrol, security, home automation, ZigBee and other batteryapplications. www.atmel.com www.atmel.com/products/avr/picopower EUROFIGHTER ACHIEVEMENTS... HALLBERGMOOS, Germany: The year 2006 ends with theEurofighter programme delivering more capability to thecustomer, with the submission to NETMA of the Declaration ofDesign and Performance for Block 5 Entry into Servicecapability. At the same time, SS011 in Spain, the first Block 5production aircraft, was cleared for engine runs, which havenow been completed successfully, and the first flight is duebefore Christmas as soon as the required NETMA clearance forthe flight is available. www.eurofighter.com/medialibrary COLLABORATION AGREEMENT... GAITHERSBURG, Maryland and PRINCETON, New Jersey: MedImmune,Inc. and BioWa, Inc. announced that they have entered into alicensing and collaboration agreement to develop andcommercialize new inflammatory disease therapies targeting theinterleukin-5 receptor. www.biowa.com www.medimmune.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.)