Banning Stem Cell Research — Or Cloning? Or Both?
A front-page article in the Minneapolis StarTribune entitled “Stakes High In Cloning Debate” (March 30, 2011) discusses a bill recently introduced into the Minnesota legislature to criminalize “human...
View ArticleOne Step Towards an EJC Decision on the Patentability of Embryonic Stem Cells...
The following is a contribution from Verena Simpson PhD of Zacco Denmark A/S. On the 10 March 2011, the Advocates General of the European Court of Justice [ECJ] gave an opinion on the interpretation of...
View ArticlePatent System Fosters Eugenics – What Next?
USA TODAY ran a provocative article yesterday (April 26, 2011) on the “dark past” of the respected journal Annals of Human Genetics, in which its editor, Andres Linares did a mea culpa for the role of...
View ArticleAppeals Court Overturns Stem Cell Ban
On April 29th, in Sherley v. Sebelius, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Cir., (a copy is available at the end of this post) overturned the injunction imposed by the district court, which had...
View ArticleDistrict Court Dismisses Stem Cell Ban Suit
On July 27, in Sherley v. Sibelius, Judge Royce Lamberth reversed himself, and dismissed the 2010 lawsuit that initially led to a freeze on Government funding for human embryonic stem cell research,...
View ArticleEU High Court Bans Patents on Cells Requiring Processing Human Embryos
Defining “human embryos” broadly, The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that pluripotent stem cells derived from human embryos and totipotent stem cells derived from blastocysts are not...
View ArticleSherley v. Sibelius – The Undead Threat To Stem Cell Funding
Green Energy Sources When a three judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Cir. dismissed a preliminary injunction obtained by plaintiffs in April 2011, and the lower court judge then...
View ArticleAppellate Court Ruling Permits Continued NIH Funding of Embryonic Stem Cell...
On August 24th, the D.C. Cir. ruling dismissing the suit brought to block any federal funding of embryonic stem cell research was affirmed. Stem cell researchers can breathe a bit more easily, and keep...
View ArticleSupreme Court Denies Cert. in Sherley v. Sebelius
The pesky worry about a possible Supreme Court review of the ruling by the D.C. Court of Appeals affirming the Circuit Court’s dismissal of a challenge to the 2009 NIH Stem Cell Funding Guidelines –...
View ArticleUK National Stem Cell Network Report – The Patent Watch Landscape
If you have either a passing or passionate interest in stem cell patenting, this report is worth some of your time. (A link to the report can be found at the end of this post.) The report analyzes the...
View ArticleTop Ten IP Stories from 2013
I admit it, I like lists, even completely subjective ones like this one, that is tilted toward patent law and prep/pros. So in no particular order, except for number one, here we go: Myriad [Add your...
View ArticleConsumer Watchdog v. Wis. Alumni Res. Foundation – Plaintiff Lacks Standing...
In Consumer Watchdog v. WARF, App. No. 2013-1377 (Fed. Cir., June 4, 2014) the Fed. Cir. found that the Watchdog can bark, but it can’t get a second bite. (A copy can be found at the end of this post.)...
View ArticleAppeals Court Overturns Stem Cell Ban
On April 29th, in Sherley v. Sebelius, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Cir., (a copy is available at the end of this post) overturned the injunction imposed by the district court, which had...
View ArticleDistrict Court Dismisses Stem Cell Ban Suit
On July 27, in Sherley v. Sibelius, Judge Royce Lamberth reversed himself, and dismissed the 2010 lawsuit that initially led to a freeze on Government funding for human embryonic stem cell research,...
View ArticleEU High Court Bans Patents on Cells Requiring Processing Human Embryos
Defining “human embryos” broadly, The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that pluripotent stem cells derived from human embryos and totipotent stem cells derived from blastocysts are not...
View ArticleSherley v. Sibelius – The Undead Threat To Stem Cell Funding
Green Energy Sources When a three judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Cir. dismissed a preliminary injunction obtained by plaintiffs in April 2011, and the lower court judge then...
View ArticleAppellate Court Ruling Permits Continued NIH Funding of Embryonic Stem Cell...
On August 24th, the D.C. Cir. ruling dismissing the suit brought to block any federal funding of embryonic stem cell research was affirmed. Stem cell researchers can breathe a bit more easily, and keep...
View ArticleSupreme Court Denies Cert. in Sherley v. Sebelius
The pesky worry about a possible Supreme Court review of the ruling by the D.C. Court of Appeals affirming the Circuit Court’s dismissal of a challenge to the 2009 NIH Stem Cell Funding Guidelines –...
View ArticleUK National Stem Cell Network Report – The Patent Watch Landscape
If you have either a passing or passionate interest in stem cell patenting, this report is worth some of your time. (A link to the report can be found at the end of this post.) The report analyzes the...
View ArticleTop Ten IP Stories from 2013
I admit it, I like lists, even completely subjective ones like this one, that is tilted toward patent law and prep/pros. So in no particular order, except for number one, here we go: Myriad [Add your...
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