Category: Intellectual property
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Pharma, Biotech Ink Deal on Anti-Inflammatory Candidate
XOMA Ltd., a biotechnology company in Berkeley, California, and Les Laboratoires Servier a French pharmaceutical company, announced an agreement to develop and commercialize XOMA 052, XOMA’s anti-inflammatory drug candidate. XOMA 052 is designed to inhibit the pro-inflammatory cytokine interleukin-1 beta believed to be a primary trigger of pathologic inflammation in multiple diseases. Under the agreement,…
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Biotech Licenses Natural Anti-Bacterial Compounds
AMRI, a biotechnology company in Albany, New York agreed to a research and licensing deal with Genentech, a Roche Group company, for AMRI’s anti-bacterial compounds from its natural products sample collection. Under the agreement, Genentech will receive an exclusive license to develop and commercialize potential products from AMRI’s anti-bacterial program. AMRI will also collaborate with…
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Illinois Start Up Licenses Anti-Staph Infection Research
Start up company ImmuVen in Champaign, Illinois agreed to license new technology and processes for treating methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) from University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. ImmuVen was founded by the technology’s inventors, microbiologists David Kranz of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Patrick Schlievert of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. MRSA is a…
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Univ. Faculty Develop, Patent Radiation Detection Device
Physics and engineering faculty members at Oregon State University (OSU) in Corvallis have invented a new radiation detection and measurement device that they say can help clean up sites with radioactive contamination, making the process faster, more accurate and less expensive. The university says a patent has been granted for the device and has begun…
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Profs Develop Dyes to Help Solar, Hydrogen Fuel Processes
Chemistry professors in Buffalo and Rochester, New York have synthesized new photo-sensitizing dyes that increase the efficiency of producing solar electricity and hydrogen fuel, for which light is a key ingredient. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has cleared the way for a patent on this technology. The research team, led by University at…
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Start Up Company Licenses University Polymer Research
A new start up company has licensed advanced polymers research at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, aiming to commercialize polymer technology. PolymerPlus LLC, in nearby Valley View, plans to work with some of the intellectual property developed at the university’s Center for Layered Polymeric Systems (CLiPS). PolymerPlus will seek out specific applications for…
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Collaboration Develops, Patents Fish Hatchery Vaccine
A team of researchers from University of Idaho in Moscow, Clear Springs Foods Inc. in Buhl, Idaho, and the Agricultural Research Service of USDA, have developed a coldwater disease (CWD) vaccine. CWD is a bacterial disease caused by Flavobacterium psychrophilum, and results in a lethal infection causing losses of hatchery-reared salmonids — e.g., salmon, trout,…
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Univ. Develops, Licenses Nanotech Bone Injection Technology
A bone-healing fluid that can potentially be injected into breaks with a syringe has been licensed from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island by a biotech startup for further development. The technology, still in an early stage, was developed by Brown engineering professor Thomas Webster, and licensed to Audax Medical Inc., based in Littleton, Massachusetts.…
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Medical Implant Coating Made from Univ. Licensed Technology
The long-term performance of medical implant devices, like heart valves and cardiac stents, could be enhanced substantially by new bio-coating technology recently licensed to University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) spin-off company Endomimetics LLC. The patent-pending technology is a coating for implants, called bio-nanomatrix, made with a bio-engineered nanomaterial that mimics natural endothelium, the substance…
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Texting Service To Fight Counterfeit Malaria Drugs
HP and African social enterprise mPedigree Network have begun a service to stop counterfeit pharmaceuticals by letting people in Nigeria and Ghana easily check the authenticity of their malaria medication. Counterfeit medicines often contain the wrong quantity of active pharmaceutical ingredients, which can result in illness or death. With the new service, patients taking a…