The San Diego Union-Tribune Nonprofit labs get off easy, compared with what commercial biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies must pay, WARF's critics say. According to the Foundation…
A taxpayer-funded program capable of lending money to cash-starved California biotechnology companies has caught the attention of local stem cell industry executives who say they're struggling…
Research could get faster and cheaper if the patents are narrowed, some scientists sayThe Scientist Magazine Patenting all human embryonic stem cells is "like Microsoft patenting…
Bloomberg News The patents will be reassessed because there's "a substantial likelihood" that previous research by other scientists could supersede the Wisconsin claims, the U.S. Patent…
The San Diego Union Tribune "The devil is in the details; that's why people's eyes glaze over when they hear the term intellectual property," said John…
The Wall Street Journal John Simpson, an official at the Foundation for Taxpayer & Consumer Rights, who is bringing the challenge, says WARF's efforts to enforce…
State universities and community colleges got an invitation last week to join California's stem cell research program. A committee overseeing the $3 billion program voted on…
Science Magazine Preliminary as it is, many people are gratified by the patent decision. "Nobody wanted to do anything, but everybody seemed very, very glad that…
The New York Times The Public Patent Foundation, which seeks to overturn patents it believes are not in the public interest, sought the re-examination last July.…
Legal battle plays out as loans fund programThe San Diego Union-Tribune The board could only make "provisional" votes on the recommendations last night because only 16…
Challenge points up state's role in bringing technology to marketMilwaukee Journal-Sentinel The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights in Santa Monica, Calif., and the Public Patent…
State will share in firms' earnings based on fruits of university research.Sacramento Bee The royalty decision was a compromise. The biotech industry had pushed for a…
Contra Costa Times (California) Supporters (of Prop 71) have high hopes for the research, believing it will lead to new therapies and maybe even cures for…
Wisconsin State Journal The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, a nonprofit watchdog group in California, called on CIRM to challenge WARF's patents in court. "It…
