embryonic stem cell patents

Supreme Court Rejection of WARF hESC Patent Challenge Discussion

February 26, 2015 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 10 Comments

The challenge to the WARF/Jamie Thomson patents/IP on human embryonic stem cells (hESC) is at an end. The US Supreme Court declined to hear the case. Earlier, the USPTO had turned down the challenge leading to a winding road in the courts. What do you all think of this stem cell IP challenge and the …

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Jeanne Loring’s Thought-Provoking Guest Post on Jamie Thomson’s ISSCR Talk

June 12, 2013 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

By Jeanne Loring. On Wednesday afternoon at the ISSCR meeting in Boston, Jamie Thomson gave a talk about the history of human pluripotent stem cells. There were probably only a dozen people in the audience of around 3,000 who were working on human ES cells around the same time that Jamie and Joseph Itskovitz-Eldor were …

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