Category: Intellectual property
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Biotech Licenses Technology for Colorectal Cancer Blood Test
Epigenomics AG in Berlin, Germany says it has an agreement for QIAGEN NV in the Netherlands to further develop Epigenomics’s research into a blood test for colorectal cancer. QIAGEN also has an option under the agreement to take the blood test to market. The technology is based on Epigenomics’s research into genomics and DNA indicators…
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Georgetown Univ., FDA to Partner on Regulatory Science
Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) in Washington, D.C. and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in Rockville, Maryland signed a new agreement to encourage research and education in the fields of regulation and public health. The memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed today covers regulatory science, ethics, education, and training. The five-year agreement is expected…
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Michigan Start Up Company Licenses Biodiesel Technology
NextCAT Inc. in Detroit, Michigan says it has licensed biofuel catalyst technology developed at the National Biofuels Energy Lab at Wayne State University, also in Detroit. The company says the technology can help restart the biodiesel industry that has been mostly idle in the United States since 2008, when rising feedstock prices made the production…
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U.S. Patent Issued for Gastrointestinal Therapy
Synergy Pharmaceuticals Inc. in New York says today the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded a patent to the company for its drug candidate SP-333 to treat various gastrointestinal disorders. U.S. Patent No. 7,879,802 was issued on 1 February, according to the company. The patent claims the composition of SP-333 and use in the treatment…
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Medical Device Maker Licenses Spinal Surgery Technology
Integra LifeSciences in Plainsboro, New Jersey says it has agreed to license and further develop technology made by Stout Medical Group in Perkasie, Pennsylvania to improve spinal surgery. Integra estimates the market value for these kind of devices to exceed $750 million. Under the agreement, Integra will develop a device that surgeons can implant into…
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FDA Grants Orphan Drug Status for ALS Candidate
BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics Inc. in Petach Tikvah, Israel says the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug designation to the company’s NurOwn adult stem cell product candidate for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. ALS is a progressive neurodegenerative disease of nerve cells in the…
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USPTO Updates Patent Examiner Guidelines
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has proposed a supplement to its patent examiner guidelines that the agency says will clarify the scope of patent rights to the public. USPTO released the proposed guidelines in the Federal Register for a 60-day public comment period. The new guidelines address section 112 of the Patent Act,…
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Asian Patents Jump in 2010, Decline in U.S., Mixed in Europe
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) reports today that the number of patent filings under WIPO’s Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) increased in 2010, with the largest percentage gains recorded in Asia. Provisional data for 2010 indicate that 162,900 international patent applications were filed in 2010 compared to the 155,398 applications filed in 2009, an increase…
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Univ. Developing Prototype Air Passenger Liquid Scanner
A University of California at Davis professor is building a magnetic resonance device that can scan unopened bottles carried on airplanes by passengers. Matthew Augustine, a member of the UC Davis chemistry faculty, originally developed the technology to check the quality of wine. Augustine began experimenting with the technology some years ago to check sealed…
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New Techniques Developed to Bind Peptides, Proteins
Research chemists at University at Buffalo in New York have devised two new ways of binding peptides to helix-shaped proteins, making the peptides more resistant to enzymes and more valuable in therapies. One of those binding techniques, called photoclick stapling, is described in a paper published online last month in the journal Bioorganic and Medicinal…