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Barr confirms Entocort patent challenge

Barr Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today confirmed that its subsidiary, Barr Laboratories, Inc., has initiated a challenge of the patents listed by AstraZeneca LP in connection with its Entocort(R) Enteric Coated Capsules (budesonide), 3mg.

27 May 2008

Imaging Dynamics receives patent for invention to improve image quality of digital radiographic images

Imaging Dynamics Company Ltd today announced that it has been awarded a patent for an invention that balances areas of varying density in a digital radiographic image.

21 May 2008

Scripps Research Institute awarded patent for revolutionary technology

The Scripps Research Institute has been awarded U.S. Patent No. US 7,375,234 B2, which covers a broad class of chemical reactions that mimic biological efficiency and opens the door to a new world of chemistry.

20 May 2008

Oncolytics Biotech announces issuance of 27th U.S. patent

Oncolytics Biotech Inc. today announced that it has been granted U.S. Patent 7,374,752 entitled "Reovirus for the Treatment of Cellular Proliferative Disorders."

20 May 2008

U.S. patent office grants re-examination of RNA splicing microarray patent on behalf of Jivan

Jivan Biologics, Inc. announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has ordered the re-examination of U.S. Patent No. 6,881,571. The serial number for the reexamination is 90/009,017.

19 May 2008

Biopure Corporation wins European patent challenge

Biopure Corporation announced today that it has successfully defended a challenge at the European Patent Office (EPO) to its European Patent entitled, "A Method for Chromatographic Removal of Prions."

19 May 2008

U.S. Patent Office allows another significant VNUS patent

VNUS Medical Technologies, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office has decided to allow a second continuation patent application related to the patents in the VNUS patent infringement lawsuit against suppliers of endovenous laser products. This comes on the heels of the Patent Office's decision last month to allow VNUS a separate patent application, also filed as a continuation of one of the patents in the lawsuit.

9 May 2008

Boston Scientific announces dismissal of Johnson and Johnson patent lawsuit in Canada

Boston Scientific Corporation announced today that the Canadian Federal Court has issued judgment in a lawsuit in which Johnson & Johnson had accused the Company's NIR(R) stent of infringing two Johnson & Johnson Palmaz patents.

8 May 2008

Patent claims allowed covering Samaritan's Alzheimer's memory recovery drug in Australia

Samaritan Pharmaceuticals, a biopharmaceutical company committed to commercializing new innovative therapeutic drugs, has received notification that the claims in the patent application for "Neuroprotective Spirostenol Pharmaceutical Compositions" covering Caprospinol (SP-233) have been allowed by the Australian Patent Office.

6 May 2008

Nuclear radiation-blocking, anti-chemical, biological-protection fabric granted Australian patent

Ronald DeMeo, MD, MBA, president and chief executive officer with Radiation Shield Technologies (RST), today announced the company has been granted a new Australian patent for Demron, the world's first nuclear radiation-blocking, anti-chemical and biological-protection material.

6 May 2008

ImmunoVaccine Technologies patents DepoVax vaccine platform

ImmunoVaccine Technologies Inc. (IVT), a vaccine development company, unveiled today its DepoVax platform, a novel depot vaccine delivery system used to increase the efficacy and strength of vaccines. IVT has filed additional patents to protect the DepoVax concept.

30 Apr 2008

Latona acquires patent rights and orphan drug status to drug compound for rheumatoid arthritis

Latona Life Sciences Inc. announced today that it has entered into two agreements for the acquisition of patent rights and orphan drug status to a novel late-stage drug, trademarked "Oralgam," for the treatment of Juvenile and Adult Rheumatoid Arthritis.

24 Apr 2008

LifeSync to sublicense patent portfolio to Triage Wireless

LifeSync Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of GMP Companies, Inc., announced it has entered into a non-exclusive sublicense with Triage Wireless Inc. for LifeSync's patent portfolio associated with the digital, wireless communication of patient vital signs.

23 Apr 2008

Signalife awarded new U.S. patent for method to monitor heartbeats

Signalife, Inc. has announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has awarded the Company a new and important patent entitled "System For, And Method Of, Monitoring Heartbeats Of A Patient". The patent, which covers 37 claims, will enhance the Company's ability to develop new proprietary products.

23 Apr 2008

StemCells, Inc. granted U.S. patent covering composition of neural stem cells derived from any tissue source

StemCells, Inc. announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued U.S. Patent Number 7,361,505 with broad claims covering human neural stem cells derived from any tissue source, including embryonic, fetal, juvenile, or adult tissue. The ‘505 patent is exclusively licensed to StemCells.

23 Apr 2008

St. Jude Medical awarded U.S. patent for neurostimulation therapy for depression

St. Jude Medical, Inc. has announced it has been awarded a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for treating depression using neurostimulation therapy in an area of the brain known as Brodmann Area 25.

21 Apr 2008

VNUS Medical Technologies receives 'notice of allowability' for endovenous laser products patents

VNUS Medical Technologies, Inc. has announced that the company has received a Notice of Allowability by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office for a patent application that is a continuation of one of the three patents in the VNUS patent infringement lawsuit against suppliers of endovenous laser products.

18 Apr 2008

Biomoda granted 'notice of allowance' for U.S. patent protection for additional IP

Biomoda, Inc., a development stage medical diagnostics company, announced it has been granted a notice of allowance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for its invention directed to the "Method for Prognosing Response to Cancer Therapy with 5,10,15,20-Tetrakis (Carboxyphenyl) Porphine."

18 Apr 2008

Baxter International, Inc. wins patent infringement case

Baxter International, Inc. has won a long-running battle in a patent infringement suit ( Fresenius USA, Inc. et al v. Baxter International Inc. et al. ) against Fresenius Medical Care involving Fresenius ' Number One - selling hemodialysis machine in the United States.

From Baxter International Inc. 7 Apr 2008

Virtual telemicroscope awarded patent

After nearly ten years of research and development, scientists at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn and Peking University in Beijing were awarded a United States patent for their virtual telemicroscope.

31 Mar 2008

Medical Patent News

Barr confirms Entocort patent challenge

Imaging Dynamics receives patent for invention to improve image quality of digital radiographic images

Scripps Research Institute awarded patent for revolutionary technology

Oncolytics Biotech announces issuance of 27th U.S. patent

U.S. patent office grants re-examination of RNA splicing microarray patent on behalf of Jivan

Biopure Corporation wins European patent challenge

U.S. Patent Office allows another significant VNUS patent

Boston Scientific announces dismissal of Johnson and Johnson patent lawsuit in Canada

Patent claims allowed covering Samaritan's Alzheimer's memory recovery drug in Australia

Nuclear radiation-blocking, anti-chemical, biological-protection fabric granted Australian patent

ImmunoVaccine Technologies patents DepoVax vaccine platform

Latona acquires patent rights and orphan drug status to drug compound for rheumatoid arthritis

LifeSync to sublicense patent portfolio to Triage Wireless

Signalife awarded new U.S. patent for method to monitor heartbeats

StemCells, Inc. granted U.S. patent covering composition of neural stem cells derived from any tissue source

St. Jude Medical awarded U.S. patent for neurostimulation therapy for depression

VNUS Medical Technologies receives 'notice of allowability' for endovenous laser products patents

Biomoda granted 'notice of allowance' for U.S. patent protection for additional IP

Baxter International, Inc. wins patent infringement case

Virtual telemicroscope awarded patent

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