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Patent Profile: Athersys Obtains U.S. and European Patents for Non-Embryonic Multipotent Stem Cells

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By James DeGiulio -- On February 9th, Athersys, Inc. was issued U.S. Patent No. 7,659,118 covering multipotent adult stem cells (MASC), their isolation and expansion, and related pharmaceutical compositions. In a February 10, 2010 press release, the Cleveland-based company also announced the grant of European patent EP 1 218 489 B1, the counterpart to the '118 patent. Athersys adds these patents to an already robust patent portfolio covering its stem cell technology, which includes fourteen patents and more than 120 global patent applications. Both the '118 and '489 patents cover the company's MultiStem technology, which is an investigational stem cell...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on March 08, 2010 (boomark / email).