Consumer groups file comments supporting United States Patent and Trademark Office's stem cell patent rejection '.

BIOTECH Patent News, June, 2007

Two consumer groups have filed comments with the United States Patent and Trademark Office supporting its rejection of human embryonic stem cell patent claims asserted by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, WI) because the claimed advances are obvious in the light of previous stem cell research, the groups said today.

Last July the groups, the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) and the Public Patent Foundation (New York, NY)(PUBPAT) challenged the patents because they are hindering stem cell research.

Four internationally known stem cell scientists, Dr. Douglas Melton of Harvard University (Cambridge, MA), Dr. Alan Trounson of Monash University (Australia), Dr. Chad Cowan of Harvard University and Dr. Jeanne Loring of...

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