Thursday, February 26, 2015

Supreme Court Declines to hear challenge to Patent on Embryonic Stem Cells

Brings and end to the challenge from long-time ISCO collaborator Jeanne Loring and two public interest groups.

For more see the UT or KPBS pieces.

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2015/feb/24/supreme-court-rejects-warf-patent-case/

http://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/feb/25/san-diego-scientists-stem-cell-patent-challenge-st/

In any case, two of the thee patents (US 5,843,780 and US 6,200,806) are set to expire this year (2015)