Clone Lawsuit Alleges Cloning! Ah, the irony. A Chinese company by the name of Shenzhen Great Long Brother Industrial Co is preparing to sue Apple if the iPad enters the Chinese market. This company...
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Microsoft Emotiflag Patent Microsoft managed to land a patent grant for emotiflags this past week despite well-known prior usage. The IP team member at Microsoft who received the Notice of Allowance...
On April 27, 2010, the USPTO issued U.S. Patent 7,704,507 directed to a method for creating an anti-cancer vaccine. This patent is assigned to the University of Virginia Patent Foundation and the University of Pittsburgh. This method primes T cells against tumor antigens using a culture of antigen presenting cells (APCs) with protein or peptides from cancerous cells, then uses the primed T cells as an antigen identifier or treatment for cancer.
Wow, the original provisional application was filed in 2001. If this vaccine actually works, I really feel for the people who have suffered in some way due to cancer in the last 9 years…