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UPDATE: Trademark Office upholds two more UW stem cell patents

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by Nick Penzenstadler
Tuesday, March 11, 2008

A federal office upheld the final two remaining University of Wisconsin human embryonic stem cell patents challenged in 2006 by a California based consumer group Tuesday.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office ruled in favor of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation for the second time in two weeks.

On February 25 the office affirmed the claims of the most recent patent by researcher James Thomson culture of human embryonic cells.

Carl Gulbrandsen, managing director for WARF said in a statement Tuesday the ruling was appropriate to protect the intellectual property in order to stimulate private sector investment.

“The patent office has conducted a thoughtful and thorough review of all three patents and we applaud this final decision on our two most important base stem cell patents,” Gulbrandsen said. “Dr. Thomson’s groundbreaking work already has led to additional scientific breakthroughs and this latest ruling affirms that his pioneering discoveries are patentable inventions.”

According to WARF the decisions on patents known as “780” and “806” announced Tuesday are final and cannot be appealed.

See complete coverage of Patent Office’s decision and the future of stem cell research in Wednesday’s edition of The Badger Herald.


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