Roche faces charges over Taq patent claim

Article Abstract:

The Swiss pharmaceutical company, Hoffmann-La Roche, and the US biotechnology company, Cetus, are facing charges for misleading the US Patent and Trademark Office in their claims to native Taq DNA polymerase. Roche sued Promega in 1992 for patent infringement. Promega claimed that the enzyme extracted from Thermus aquaticus was the same as extracted by scientists earlier whereas Cetus claims that the enzymes were unique. The court accused Cetus of having misrepresented scientific principles and dismissed Roche's claims that the enzymes were purer than those extracted earlier.

Cases, Biotechnology industry, Biotechnology industries, Reports, DNA polymerases, Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., Cetus Corp., CTUS, Promega Corp.

---

Alliance of US labs plans to build map of cell signalling pathways

Article Abstract:

Alfred Gilman, a professor of pharmacology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, has gained support from almost 40 leading cell-signalling researchers for his Alliance for Cellular Signalling (AFCS) project. AFCS aims to identify the proteins that form the signalling pathways in two mouse cell types: the myocyte, a heart cell, and the B lymphocyte, an immune system cell. This project would require funding of around $10 million a year. It would include creating a network of around seven laboratories at academic sites across the US.

Research, Planning, Cell research, Cytological research, Cell metabolism, Gilman, Alfred

---

Similar abstracts:

• Abstracts: Effects of helicopter noise on Mexican spotted owls. Influence of landscape composition on bird use of rowcrop fields
• Abstracts: Symmetry as destiny - taking a balanced view of IQ. Of mice and mentality. Yes, but what's it for? The current state of language can make it difficult to discuss evolution in an accurate way
• Abstracts: Factors influencing wood duck use of natural cavities. Toxicological significance of grit replacement times for juvenile mallards
• Abstracts: Ecological scale and forest development: squirrels, dietary fungi, and vascular plants in managed and unmanaged forests

This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.