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U.S. patent for Celsis IVT's LiverPool products

Celsis International is pleased to announce that the United States Patent and Trademark Office today issued U.S. Patent No. 7,604,929 to Celsis In Vitro Technologies (Celsis IVT). This patent generally covers processes by which the company creates its unique LiverPool(TM) products for drug discovery research.

20 Oct 2009

ImmunoCellular Therapeutics files a provisional patent application

ImmunoCellular Therapeutics, Ltd., a clinical-stage biotechnology company that is developing immune-based therapies for the treatment of brain and other cancers, announced today that it has filed a provisional patent application at US Patent Office seeking protection of intellectual property relating to novel glycosylated epitopes present in lung cancer, pancreatic cancer and colon cancer that are targeted by the Company’s ICT-109 monoclonal antibody product candidate.

20 Oct 2009

Health Discovery Corporation granted additional patents for Recursive Feature Elimination using Support Vector Machines

Health Discovery Corporation is pleased to announce numerous additional issued patents and Notices of Allowance since its last press release describing its intellectual property portfolio. The Company now has a total of 37 issued patents, 4 Notices of Allowance and 30 pending patent applications.

20 Oct 2009

Hatch-Waxman patent infringement litigation concerning Duac Gel dismissed

Perrigo Company announced today that the Hatch-Waxman litigation relating to Duac® Gel (clindamycin phosphate (1%) and benzoyl peroxide (5%) gel) filed by the Stiefel Laboratories division of Glaxo SmithKline has been dismissed with prejudice.

19 Oct 2009

Sonosite resolves all pending patent litigation with General Electric

SonoSite, Inc., the world leader and specialist in hand-carried ultrasound for the point-of-care, announced today that the company has resolved all pending patent litigation with General Electric Company (GE).

19 Oct 2009

BNA Books publishes the 2009 Cumulative Supplement to Pharmaceutical Patent Law

The 2009 Cumulative Supplement to Pharmaceutical Patent Law delivers the latest legal developments in pharmaceutical patent law.

15 Oct 2009

PIKAMAB obtains U.S. patent rights to develop theragnostic product

PIKAMAB, a stratified medicine biopharmaceutical company, announced today that it has secured exclusive rights to two issued U.S. patents from Hospital for Special Surgery, New York. PIKAMAB is developing Lupus TherasightTM, a novel theragnostic product that will eventually help guide the drug development process and patient treatment protocols in the areas of lupus and lupus nephritis.

15 Oct 2009

Illumina and Solexa deny patent infringement allegations

Illumina, Inc. today announced that, together with Solexa its wholly owned subsidiary, it has filed its initial response to the lawsuit brought by Life Technologies and Applied Biosystems on September 21, 2009 in U.S. District Court in Wilmington, Delaware. In their answer, Illumina and Solexa have denied all of Life’s and AB’s allegations of patent infringement, and have asserted that AB’s licensed patents are invalid.

From Illumina, Inc. 15 Oct 2009

AMP congratulates SACGHS on the publication of their DNA patenting report

The Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) provided comments at the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health and Society (SACGHS) meeting on October 8. AMP opposes the patenting of all naturally occurring genetic material and has signed on as a lead plaintiff in the ACLU case challenging Myriad Genetics' patents on the BRCA 1 and BRCA 2 genes. AMP thanked SACGHS for studying how both patents and restrictive licensing limit patient access and potentially reduce the quality of tests.

15 Oct 2009

European Patent Office to grant two intellectual property patents to Athera Biotechnologies

Athera Biotechnologies AB, an atherosclerosis R&D company developing novel products for treatment and prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD), announced today that the European Patent Office intends to grant two key patents related to the Company's intellectual property on its two pharmaceutical candidates Annexin A5 and PC-mAb.

14 Oct 2009

NASA signs patent license agreement with OxyHeal Medical Systems for hyperbaric chamber technology

NASA has signed a patent license agreement with a California company to improve the medical community's access to hyperbaric chambers used to treat many medical conditions and emergencies. OxyHeal Medical Systems Inc. of National City, Calif., will develop new products based on technologies NASA originally developed for space.

14 Oct 2009

Champions Biotechnology receives U.S. patent for its tubulin inhibitors

Champions Biotechnology, Inc., a drug development company with a preclinical platform able to predict clinical effectiveness, accelerate development and enhance the value of oncology drugs, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued a patent on September 29, 2009 for the company's tubulin inhibitors, including its lead compound SG410.

14 Oct 2009

LiveProcess receives patent for its "Networked Emergency Management System"

LiveProcess Corporation, the market leader in web-based emergency preparedness and incident management solutions for hospitals and healthcare organizations, announced today that the U.S. Patent Office (PTO) has issued U.S. Patent No. 7,596,608 to LiveProcess.

14 Oct 2009

Endologix defends patent infringement lawsuit

Endologix, Inc., developer of minimally invasive treatments for aortic disorders, announced today that it has conducted further evaluation of the patent infringement lawsuit filed against the company last week by Cook Medical, and of the patents asserted in the lawsuit.

14 Oct 2009

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office grants patent to Applied Technology Holdings

Applied Technology Holdings, Inc., revealed today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted its patent on a system for the gathering and processing of biometric and biomechanical body motion data.

14 Oct 2009

Histostem awarded U.S. patent for isolation of mesenchymal stem cells

Stem Cell Therapy International, Inc. announced that its soon to be subsidiary, Histostem Ltd. of South Korea ("Histostem"), has been awarded U.S. Patent Number 7,582,477 B2, entitled "Method of Isolating and Culturing Mesenchymal Stem Cell Derived from Cryopreserved Umbilical Cord Blood." This patented method is utilized across the company for research, clinical and cosmetic applications.

13 Oct 2009

European Patent Office announces intention to grant patent for Phyton Biotech's methods of producing taxanes

Phyton Biotech GmbH, a world leader in plant cell culture technology, reports that the European Patent Office has announced its intention to grant a European patent to Phyton covering methods of producing taxanes such as paclitaxel.

13 Oct 2009

BIO disagrees with recommendations of the draft report on Gene Patenting and Licensing

The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) provided comments yesterday to the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health and Society regarding its draft report on Gene Patenting and Licensing and Their Impact on Patient Access to Genetic Tests. The report makes several recommendations that would restrict the ability to obtain or undermine the enforceability of patents and exclusive licenses with respect to genetic tests.

12 Oct 2009

Cook Medical files lawsuit against Endologix for patent infringement

Endologix, Inc., developer of minimally invasive treatments for aortic disorders, acknowledged today that it has become aware that Cook Medical has filed a lawsuit against Endologix in the United States District Court alleging that Endologix infringes two of Cook's U.S. patents.

9 Oct 2009

GSK and USPTO file joint motion to dismiss litigation over final regulations

GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) today announced that it has reached agreement with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to join the USPTO's motion to dismiss its litigation over Final Regulations published in August 2007 (Triantafyllos Tafas and SmithKline Beecham Corporation, SmithKline Beecham PLC and Glaxo Group Limited vs. David J. Kappos and the United States Patent and Trademark Office).

9 Oct 2009