Patent Law

Yamanaka scooped on iPS (stem cell) patent ?!?

By Lawrence B. Ebert, Esq.

German chemical giant Bayer AG applied for a patent in Japan on June 15, 2007, for a technique to generate induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, from human cells, according to Patent Office data released by Sunday [Jan 4].

The application was submitted around three months before a Japanese team led by Kyoto University professor Shinya Yamanaka announced the successful generation of iPS cells from human cells.

See also

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2008. Shinya Yamanaka Kyoto work leads to Japanese patent on iPS

http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2008/02/to-don-c-reed-on-getting-facts-straight.html

http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2008/05/desperately-seeking-yamanaka-on-cirm.html

Full post as published by IPBiz on January 05, 2009 (boomark / email).