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Patent Profile: Allele Biotech Announces Issuance of siRNA Patent

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Donald Zuhn -- Last week, Allele Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued U.S. Patent No. 7,422,896, which is directed to DNA compositions that mediate RNA interference (RNAi) gene silencing, wherein the DNA compositions include an RNA polymerase III promoter that drives the expression of a nucleotide sequence encoding an intermediate small interfering RNA (siRNA) molecule, and RNA polymerase III terminator. The '896 patent is the second U.S. patent to be awarded to Allele Biotech, which is also named as an assignee on U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2005/0042603. According to the...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on September 16, 2008 (boomark / email).