CONSUMER WATCHDOG, PUBLIC PATENT FOUNDATION ASK APPEALS COURT TO REJECT KEY HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELL PATENT HELD BY WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION WASHINGTON, DC – Two public interest groups today asked a federal appeals court to invalidate a patent on human embryonic stem cells held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) because the claimed “cell culture falls within the ‘product of nature’ exception” of what can be patented. In a brief filed today with United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Consumer Watchdog and the Public Patent Foundation argued a rejection would be “especially appropriate in light of the recent Supreme Court ruling” in the case of Myriad Genetics, which held that genes cannot be patented. The Public Patent Foundation represented the successful challengers to gene patents in that landmark case. Read the brief here: consumerwatchdog.org/resources/cwdvswarfbrief.pdf
Posted on: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 08:12:22 +0000
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