Patent Law

It's about the money...

By Lawrence B. Ebert, Esq.

John Kanzius used to have trouble getting government officials interested in his experimental cancer-treatment device.

Now they seem to be eager to help him.

U.S. Rep. Phil English, of Erie, R-3rd Dist., visited Kanzius' lab Monday to promise $500,000 in federal funding for the external radio-frequency generator. The House Committee on Appropriations has approved the funds, and the House could act on it as early as September, English said.

The bill must still be approved by the full House and Senate and signed by President Bush, though English said "it's very close" to being a done deal.

"This is the kind of project the federal government should support," English said.

Just hold that thought for a bit....

Note also

Some Kanzius patent applications

Note also, in the anthrax business, although patents were an issue, it was the huge swelling of federal money that followed the anthrax scare that likely was the prime motivation behind the scare.

**Separately, recall of Hwang Woo Suk-->

Five members of Hwang's team were indicted, including one scientist who worked in the laboratory of University of Pittsburgh researcher Gerald Schatten, a former collaborator with Hwang.

Hwang was charged with accepting $2 million in donations after he knowingly falsified the embryonic stem cell research by claiming his team had produced a cloned human embryo and cloned patient-specific embryonic stem cells.

If convicted, Hwang could spend as much as ten years in jail.

Full post as published by IPBiz on August 21, 2008 (boomark / email).