Patent Law

StemCells gets patent on Enriched central nervous system stem cell and progenitor cell populations
A June 6 press release noted: StemCells, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued Patent Number 7,381,561 claiming the use of additional monoclonal antibodies for the prospective isolation of rare cells from human neural tissue, such as the Company?s HuCNS-SC® product candidate (purified human neural stem cells)...

Ding! WARF Wins Round 2 As Stem Cell Patent Upheld
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) came down on the side of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) in upholding one of its patents on human embryonic stem cells.  WARF’s licensee, Geron Corp...

StemCells still going after Neuralstem
Forbes (AP) reports on May 12: Clinical-stage biotechnology company StemCells Inc. said Monday [May 12] it filed a second patent lawsuit against Neuralstem in a California federal court, alleging infringement of two patents related to human neural stem cells...

Hwang Woo Suk stem cell patent to issue in Australia
Dong-A Ilbo reports:Sooam Biotech Research Foundation, which he heads, said 21 Sept. 08, ?The Australian patent office decided to accept Dr. Hwang?s patent application for the cloned human embryonic stem cell May 18...

Battling press releases on meaning of re-exam results
NeuralStem responded to a press release by StemCells about a re-examination of two StemCells patents:Neuralstem, Inc. today responds to an earlier press release by StemCells, Inc. by stating that StemCells, Inc...

Stem Cell Patents
Note the presence of a web site on stem cell patents.IPBiz has been covering stem cell patents for some time.For example, Non-final rejection of Schatten's patent application on stem cells

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Baseball Players Named in Mitchell Report
Major League Baseball Players using Performance Enhancing Drugs

Zantac Patent
GlaxoSmithKline and Cypress Pharmaceutical settle patent infringement dispute.

Soliris Patent
Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc. agrees to pay the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation a $10 million patent infringement settlement.

DRAM Patent
ProMOS Technologies and Mosel Vitelic pay MOSAID Technologies an undisclosed patent infringement settlement.

Sony
to Pay $18.5 Million For Patent Infringment

Qualcomm Settles Patent Suit for $891 Million

The Princeton Review
$2.6 million settlement reached in patent infringement case.