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Patent Infringement Complaint by Harvest Technologies (Terumo) against ThermoGenesis (KOOL)

October 25th, 2012 No comments

     Complaint also requests INJUNCTION on US sales … Read more…

Embryonic Stem-Cell Patents Infringe EU Law

October 18th, 2011 No comments

The EU’s highest court (Court of Justice inLuxembourg) said that stem-cell research involving human embryos can’t be patented. Read more…

Overhaul of the US patent system passed by Senate

September 9th, 2011 Comments off

The bill that would ease deadlines for seeking a patent-term extension granted to compensate drug makers for the time it takes to get regulatory approval. Read more…

Categories: Patent Issues, Patents

Ruling upholds Gene Patent, What is Next?

August 4th, 2011 No comments

The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which specializes in patent cases, said that Myriad Genetics was entitled to patents Read more…

First Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell (iPSC) Patent Approved by the EPO

August 3rd, 2011 No comments

The European Patent Office (EPO) will grant on 8/3/11, an iPSC patent to Professor Shinya Yamanaka (Kyoto University). Read more…

Patent trouble Ahead, embryo stem cell Patents might infringe EU Law

March 10th, 2011 No comments

Patent protection for stem-cell research methods that involve cells from human embryos (could) breach EU Union law, Read more…

The Next Battleground for Stem Cells, Patenting Pluripotency

September 28th, 2010 No comments

The patenting of human embryonic stem (hES) cells could produce yet another ambiguous controversy concerning science, ethics and legal issues related to stem cell  … intellectual property (IP). Read more…