Thursday, August 7, 2014US Government Holds Ebola Virus Patent In a comment to my post, The US Military and the Ebola Outbreak, Alex Zougle notes: Another dot to connect is that the US Gunverment holds a patent on Ebola: google/patents/US20120251502 They sure do: PATENT Human Ebola Virus Species and Compositions and Methods Thereof US 20120251502 A1 ABSTRACT Compositions and methods including and related to the Ebola Bundibugyo virus (EboBun) are provided. Compositions are provided that are operable as immunogens to elicit and immune response or protection from EboBun challenge in a subject such as a primate. Inventive methods are directed to detection and treatment of EboBun infection. Publication number US20120251502 A1 Publication type Application Application number US 13/125,890 PCT number PCT/US2009/062079 Publication date Oct 4, 2012 Filing date Oct 26, 2009 Priority date Oct 24, 2008 Also published as CA2741523A1, 4 More » Inventors Jonathan S. Towner, 4 More » Original Assignee The Government of the US as Represented by the Secretary of the Dept. of health Export Citation BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan Patent Citations (2), Non-Patent Citations (8), Classifications (39),Legal Events (1) External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet The invention provides the isolated human Ebola (hEbola) viruses denoted as Bundibugyo (EboBun) deposited with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”; Atlanta, Ga., United States of America) on Nov. 26, 2007 and accorded an accession number 200706291. This deposit was not made to an International Depository Authority (IDA) as established under the Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure, and is a non-Budapest treaty deposit. The deposited organism is not acceptable by American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), Manassas, Va., an International Depository Authority (IDA) as established under the Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure. Samples of the stated Deposit Accession No. 200706291 will be made available to approved facilities for thirty years from the date of deposit, and for the lifetime of the patent issuing from, or claiming priority to this application.
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