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Health Care & Hospital Law

May 11, 2010

Challenge to Patent Could Bring More

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected a long-held patent covering the critical building blocks for genetic science, giving researchers new lattitude in experiments with stem cell research.

By Mandy Jackson

Daily Journal Staff Writer

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected a long-held patent covering the critical building blocks for genetic science, giving researchers new latitude in stem cell research experiments. Now, researchers and their lawyers are asking if the successful patent challenge is going to open the floodgates for more litigation.

At a minimum, an appeal is expected of the April 29 deci...

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