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Taxpayer advocacy group challenges three patents it says have discouraged work on embryonic tissue.The Los Angeles Times Tuesday's challenge did not come…
Jul 19, 2006Associated Press The Public Patent Foundation, the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, and Jeanne Loring, a stem cell scientist at the…
Jul 19, 2006Sacramento Bee The group argues that the patents are overly broad and will discourage companies from bringing stem cell treatments to market.…
Jul 19, 2006Wisconsin State Journal "The folks in Wisconsin need to get the dollar signs out of their eyes and stop impeding vital research…
Jul 19, 2006Consumer groups say researchers 'handcuffed'The San Diego Union-Tribune The groups -- the Foundation for Consumer and Taxpayer Rights in Santa Monica and…
Jul 19, 2006Inside Higher Ed (insidehighered.com) One of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights's main points that it hopes to convey to the…
Jul 19, 2006Science Magazine Online "All [WARF] really did here was follow what a number of stem cell scientists were showing," says John Simpson…
Jul 18, 2006Contra Costa Times (California) On Tuesday, two consumer groups filed challenges with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office seeking to have the…
Jul 18, 2006The Wall Street Journal John Simpson, an official at the Foundation for Taxpayer & Consumer Rights, who is bringing the challenge, says…
Jul 18, 2006University of Wisconsin Affiliate Claims Rights to All Embryonic Stem Cells Used for Research
Jul 18, 2006Eureka Times Standard (California) The telephone and cable companies claim all they want is a level playing field. To that, I say…
Jul 17, 2006The head of America's 7th largest insurance company recently wrote Illinois-based CEOs and big business barons about a $25,000 per head Schwarzenegger…
Jul 17, 2006The Los Angeles Times Jamie Court of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, which has campaigned for healthcare reforms that always…
Jul 16, 2006The Los Angeles Times "Californians have waited 17 years, six months and eight days to end the system of basing auto insurance…
Jul 15, 2006State will share in firms' earnings based on fruits of university research.Sacramento Bee The royalty decision was a compromise. The biotech industry…
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