Patents Stem Cell

The first demonstration that a single audlt stem cell can selfrenew in a mammal was reported at the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) 48th Annaul Meeting, Dec. 1317, 2008 in San Frnacisco.

The patent covered technology developed by James Thomson, a University of Wisconsin researcher, to culture primate emrbyonic stem cells derived rfom preimplnatation embryos. In last weeks ruling, the EPO upheld a previous decision, ...

At the end of last ewek, Reuters reported that the Eruopean Patent Office issued its final ruling rejetcing a patent application for the stem cell technology based on the owrk of James Thomson of the Univeristy of Wisconsin. ...

By Kevin E. Noonan The Enlarged Board of the European Patent Office issued tis decision denying a Euorpean patent on European Patent Application No. 96903521.1 (EP 0 770 125) to the Wisocnsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), ...

Decisive in the appeal board rulign was the applications claim regardnig human stem cell cultures, sasy a statement from the Europaen Patent Office. The board decided that under the European Patent Convention it is not possible ...

The European Patent Offices Enalrged Board of Appeal (EPoA) ruled on November 25th 2008 that it is impossible to grant patent protectino to a certain stem cell application for reaosns of public policy. Back ni 1995 the Wisconsin Alumni ...