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21 Oct 2:29 pm
The BLT Blog reported: Alan Kasper, a senior partner and patent lawyer at Washington-based Sughrue Mion, has been named president of the
American Intellectual Property Law Association, the firm announced Monday.
16 Sep, 2007 3:24 am
... as president of California's CIRM, californiastemcellreport has several posts, including one with text from FTCR's Simpson: Alan Trounson
is one of the scientists we sought to support our challenge of the the human embryonic stem cell patents held by WARF. ... at Hadassa Medical Center, Jerusalem and Bongso at National
University of Singapore. The company focused their commercial interests under Alan Coleman (CEO) for ESCs and diabetes (funding Drs Elefanty
and Stanley in Trounson's Centre) and ESCs ...
6 Nov 11:09 pm
... ." IPBiz had to chuckle at the argument "Harvard law grad" as a proxy for credibility. As pointed out in IPBiz, Harvard Law does not have much credibility as to citation or
plagiarism. Laurence Tribe plagiarized. In defending one plagiarist Harvard law prof, Alan Dershowitz noted law promotes a culture of copying.
So now Ben Shapiro, Harvard law grad, is complaining he didn't get properly cited for reporting a story about what someone else did? In the patent law biz, we have to contend with who
...
24 Jul, 2007 7:14 am
... stem (hES) cell therapies. Investors lost interest because "the likelihood of having products in the clinic in the short term was vanishingly small," says Alan Colman, a stem cell pioneer who until last month was ESI's chief executive. Elsewhere in the article: "ESI's setback need not cast a pall on the
field...Alan Trounson, a Monash University stem cell scientist says he is "profoundly disappointed." Irving Weissman is quoted: "ES cell
research is ...
26 Jul, 2007 1:40 am
... interest in research through arrangements with external partners such as Singapore Stem Cell Consortium (SSCC), now headed by ESI's former CEO Alan Colman. SSCC has taken in 20 scientists from ESI. NewsAsia had reported on July 6: Internationally-renowned expert Dr Alan Colman has joined A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research) to head its stem cell research efforts. (...) Dr Colman has now been appointed
Executive Director of ...
26 Jul, 2007 9:58 am
... each dose and producing them at such numbers was prohibitively expensive. Australia's leading adult stem cell scientist, Professor Alan
Mackay-Sim, director of the National Centre for Adult Stem Cell Research at Griffith University, said he was not surprised. ''If ... the patent office Friday and released by the
challengers Monday. Those scientists are Chad Cowan of Harvard, Jeanne Loring of the Burnham Institute for Medical Research in San Diego, and Alan Trounson of Monash University in Australia.
11 Nov, 2007 1:11 pm
The Independent quotes Alan Trounson (named CIRM head) on the work of the Oregon National Primate Regional Center to be reported in the journal
Nature: Professor Alan Trounson of Monash University in Australia said Dr Mitalipov's findings represented the long-awaited breakthrough.
Despite many attempts, no one had been able to produce cloned primate embryos from adult cells, yet this had been done on dozens of other non-primate species. " This is 'proof of
concept' for the primate. It has been ...
11 Feb, 2008 6:49 am
... quote showing what we knew all along--no realistic chance of therapies in ten (10) years: "'It's too early,' said Alan Trounson, president
of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the agency charged with administering the stem cell funds. 'There are very few ... in less than 25 years. There have been some,
but they tend to be rare.'" [Tod Wallach quoting Dr. Alan Trounson, now of CIRM, but in Australia at the time of the vote Proposition 71] Hmmm,
where was Dr. Trounson when Laurence ...
24 Feb, 2008 9:51 pm
... the standard "peanut butter and jelly" and swing patents, but he also missed IBM's "queue for airplane toilet" patent and "outsourcing" application."] IBM withdraws business method
patent on outsourcing of services Microsoft "spyware" for monitoring activities? Alan Murray of WSJ on bad patents ["There is a problem in the
patent world, but it isn't companies that don't commercialize their own patents. Rather, it is bad patents. These days, too many are granted, too often for "inventions" that ...
28 Mar, 2008 12:45 am
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Alan Hesketh, patent director of Pfizer Inc., at John F. Kennedy International Airport
in New York on Wednesday, March 26. British citizen Alan Hesketh is accused of posing as a 28-year-old woman while trading hundreds of images
of children engaged in sex acts. [from AP report of 28 March 08.] The LawBlog at WSJ picked up the story: [Hesketh] was then presented in U.S. District Court in Hartford on Thursday,
March 27. Judge Donna F. ...
21 Feb 8:54 pm
... technology. Wikipedia notes: Active-matrix OLEDs (AMOLED) require a thin film transistor backplane to switch the individual pixel on or off, and can make higher resolution and
larger size displays possible. In passing, Wikipedia also writes: Alan J. Heeger, Alan G. MacDiarmid
& Hideki Shirakawa received the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "The discovery and development of conductive organic polymers". The Nobel citation made no reference to the earlier
discoveries. Hmmm, does not citing ...
5 Aug 10:57 am
... big pharma, and against the side of consumer interest groups, such as Consumers Union. Further, although the AP article by Alan Fram notes
the big pharma advantage "due in part to a lopsided edge in lobbying resources," the CIRM letter to Feinstein omitted ... as California companies such as iZumi. One might say CIRM
aimed, but shot the California taxpayer in the foot. Article by Alan Fram titled THE INFLUENCE GAME: Biotech drug lobbying war As an aside,
pro-stem cell forces outspent the antis in ...
4 Mar, 2007 9:53 pm
An article "Open Call From the Patent Office" appears on page A1 of the March 5, 2007 issue of the Washington Post. The article by Alan Sipress
states: The Patent and Trademark Office is starting a pilot project that will not only post patent applications on the Web and invite comments but also use a community rating system
designed to push the most respected comments to the top of the file, for serious consideration by the agency's examiners. A first for the federal government, the system ...
21 Mar, 2007 10:33 pm
... ovarian failure. The journal will also issue a note in an upcoming issue describing the transgression, and has barred every author listed on the original Fertility and Sterility
paper from contributing papers to the journal for three years, editor Alan DeCherney told The Scientist. "This is a serious punishment." Every
author signed a statement saying they had not published the paper in another journal, and had no plans to do so. "So they perjured themselves," DeCherney noted, adding the ...
10 Apr, 2007 9:34 am
... the success rate of his attempts to clone dogs. This error understated the past success rate and made the apparent technical progress the team had made since then more impressive.
Alison McCook of the Scientist noted of the Cha plagiarism flap: Alan DeCherney of Fertility and Sterility told The Scientist he would not
confirm the Cha letter and its contents, nor comment on the latest accusations. He said in an Email that the publications committee of the American Society for Reproductive ...
27 Apr, 2007 10:31 pm
... : In an upcoming issue, Fertility and Sterility will publish a statement retracting the article because of "duplicate publication," said Sean Tipton, a spokesman for the American
Society of Reproductive Medicine, which oversees the journal. The journal's editor, Alan DeCherney, had said earlier that he believed the
article to have been plagiarized. Tipton said this week that the problem was rather that it had been published elsewhere, which violated the journal's rules, and suggested that the ...
30 Apr, 2007 10:00 pm
Jon Van of the Chicago Tribune quotes Alan Thiele of San Antonio about a possible consequence of the obviousness determination in KSR v.
Teleflex: "Under the Sarbanes-Oxley law any substantial decline in value must be reported. Companies could be held liable under Sarbanes-Oxley if they fail to look at the record of each
patent to determine its vulnerability." Sure, and if a company reports a lowering in value that would be a party admission that the patents of the company are more likely to be ...
7 Jun, 2007 11:45 am
... , someone should produce the agreement signed by Dr. Lee with Fertility and Sterility to see if "no prior publication" was part of the agreement. Two months later, on June 7,
californiastemcellreportdiscusses a letter by the editor of Fertility & Sterility (Alan DeCherney) which included the text: "After checking
our records, I acknowledge that Dr. Jeong-Hwan Kim's name was included as an author when the manuscript was originally submitted, though I am not aware of the circumstances that ...
4 Jul, 2007 1:57 am
... Declarations from three other scientists also were filed with the patent office Friday and released by the challengers Monday. Those scientists are Chad Cowan of Harvard, Jeanne
Loring of the Burnham Institute for Medical Research in San Diego, and Alan Trounson of Monash University in Australia. Goldie Blumenstyk
erroneously wrote in the Chronicle: In April, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ruled that the patents were invalid. The university, through its patenting arm, the Wisconsin Alumni
...
7 Jul, 2007 1:29 am
... , but marketing is the most important. "If you've got a patent - in theory, of course - you can sue. But it isn't about inventing it yourself," Butler said. "What you've got to be
able to do is to commercialize it yourself." Alan Blake, a UT alumnus and businessman, said Phan's struggle with patenting and knock-offs is
typical. "[Patenting] is extraordinarily complicated," he said. "Success requires a tremendous amount of persistence." IPBiz suspects that BarBaby's complaints about the Chinese ...
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