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The Patent and Trademark Office shakes up the biotech intellectual property status quo.Salon.com Score another victory for the patent law freedom fighters.…
Apr 3, 2007Wisconsin Technology Network John M. Simpson, FTCR stem cell project director, called it a great day for scientific research. The foundation has…
Apr 3, 2007US Patent and Trademark Office sides with scientists and consumer groups who had asked for a review of Wisconsin intellectual propertyThe Scientist…
Apr 3, 2007North County Times (Escondido, California) In July, the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights Foundation and the Public Patent Foundation filed challenges…
Apr 3, 2007MODESTO MAN'S REQUEST FOR COVERAGE FOR HIS SON REJECTED FOR 1 EAR INFECTIONModesto Bee Jamie Court, president of the Foundation for Taxpayer…
Apr 3, 2007Sacramento Bee (California) "What makes this trip so particularly egregious is that the corporations are focusing on the exact levers of power…
Apr 3, 2007After Donating More Than $770,000 to California Politicians During 2005-06, Company Once Again Asks Lawmakers to Defy the Law
Apr 3, 2007SB 975 (Calderon) and Krumme v. Mercury This memo explains the history of Mercury Insurance's illegal broker fees and the effort to…
Apr 3, 2007The Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin) The WARF patents were challenged by the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights and the Public Patent…
Apr 3, 2007California's drivers continue to pay more at the pump than motorists in other states.Los Angeles Times "The oil companies continue to frame…
Apr 3, 2007The protections were blamed for slowing medical research.Los Angeles Times The office ruled the discovery of embryonic stem cells from primates --…
Apr 3, 2007Associated Press The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, an arm of the University of Wisconsin that controls the school's patents, owns the patents…
Apr 3, 2007New Scientist Magazine The examiners said the Wisconsin cells -- based on the work of James Thomson at the University of Wisconsin-Madison…
Apr 3, 2007California nonprofit groups had argued research foundation claimed too much credit for process.Sacramento Bee (California) "What this means for researchers in California…
Apr 3, 2007Decision could expand researchThe San Diego Union-Tribune The ruling released yesterday could remove what many scientists say is one of the biggest…
Apr 3, 2007The New York Times The Public Patent Foundation, which seeks to overturn patents it believes are not in the public interest, sought…
Apr 3, 2007The donation is solicited for an investigation into counterfeiting of the company's cigarettes. Ethics watchdogs raise fairness concerns.Los Angeles Times Some ethics…
Apr 2, 2007San Francisco Business Times The two groups challenging the patents argued that the work done by University of Wisconsin researcher James Thomson…
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