Dennis NormileIn another high-profile case of a Japanese scientist fighting for a share of the profits generated by a key discovery, Nobel laureate Tasuku Honjo last Friday announced he plans to sue Osaka, Japan–based Ono Pharmaceutical for 22 billion yen ($200 million) he believes he should get for supporting the drug firm in a patent dispute.The 78-year-old Kyoto University immunologist shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with James Allison, of the MD Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas, “for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation.” Both discovered ways to remove brakes on the immune system that prevent it from attacking tumor cells, although they identified.