{"id":1063584,"date":"2013-05-19T02:58:25","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T06:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/a-patent-war-on-ips-one-researchers-view\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T20:31:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T00:31:05","slug":"a-patent-war-on-ips-one-researchers-view-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/stem-cell-therapy\/a-patent-war-on-ips-one-researchers-view-3.php","title":{"rendered":"A Patent War on iPS: One Researcher&#8217;s View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the California stem cell agency<br>pushes ever more aggressively to turn research into cures, the second<br>largest share of its awards, in terms of numbers of grants, has gone<br>to efforts involving induced pluripotent cells, also known as<br>reprogrammed adult cells.<\/p><div><\/div><div>But questions do exist whether those<br>efforts can surmount barriers that have to do with patents and<br>ownership of the intellectual property.<\/div><div><\/div><div><b>UC Davis<\/b> stem researcher and blogger<br><b>Paul Knoepfler<\/b> discussed some of the problems <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipscell.com\/2013\/05\/putting-the-ip-in-ips-cells-patent-war-looming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in a post yesterday. He wrote,<\/a><\/div><blockquote><p>&ldquo;All the talk and the slew of<br>publications about potentially using iPS cells to develop therapies<br>to help patients is exciting in theory, but unfortunately the reality<br>is that it is not entirely clear if most researchers are, from a<br>legal standpoint, even allowed to develop and commercialize iPS<br>cell-based therapies at all.<\/p><\/blockquote><blockquote><p>&ldquo;The patent landscape for iPS cells<br>is complicated to put it mildly.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/?tbm=pts#hl=en&amp;tbm=pts&amp;sclient=psy-ab&amp;q=%22induced+pluripotent+stem+cells%22&amp;oq=%22induced+pluripotent+stem+cells%22&amp;gs_l=hp.3..0l3j0i20.51865.56295.7.57262.32.30.0.0.0.0.219.3330.17j12j1.30.0...0.0...1c.1.11.psy-ab.LpXQFd0uupw&amp;pbx=1&amp;bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&amp;bvm=bv.45645796,d.cGE&amp;fp=ee7bef6977665338&amp;biw=1172&amp;bih=870\">&nbsp;A<br>Google patent search for &ldquo;induced pluripotent stem cells&rdquo;<br>produced almost 200,000 results<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/?tbm=pts#hl=en&amp;gs_rn=11&amp;gs_ri=psy-ab&amp;qe=aW5kdWNlZCBw&amp;qesig=3iEzE7OnpGiy3tIRLS5sKg&amp;pkc=AFgZ2tn4QsM8UA46IgnzDhLOkeSde-7aqtS58wR3Dts3nRMnKdwXV1Zq0o8rE3mHYPgFHVXtX2Z1HCoO56Gdhlrsta2Gx8YflA&amp;cp=9&amp;gs_id=10&amp;xhr=t&amp;q=induced+pluripotent+stem+cells&amp;es_nrs=true&amp;pf=p&amp;output=search&amp;tbm=pts&amp;sclient=psy-ab&amp;oq=induced+p&amp;gs_l=&amp;pbx=1&amp;bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&amp;bvm=bv.45645796,d.cGE&amp;fp=ee7bef6977665338&amp;biw=1172&amp;bih=870\">.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><blockquote><p>&ldquo;A search for &ldquo;cellular<br>reprogramming produced more than&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/?tbm=pts#hl=en&amp;tbm=pts&amp;sclient=psy-ab&amp;q=%22cellular+reprogramming%22&amp;oq=%22cellular+reprogramming%22&amp;gs_l=hp.3..0l4.2620.7484.6.10312.2.2.0.0.0.0.138.274.0j2.2.0...0.0...1c.1.11.psy-ab.FPCzCQoGltw&amp;pbx=1&amp;bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&amp;bvm=bv.45645796,d.cGE&amp;fp=ee7bef6977665338&amp;biw=1172&amp;bih=870\">1,000<br>results<\/a>.<br>I&rsquo;m not sure all of these results are<br>really separate patents, but still&hellip;.that&rsquo;s a big complicated<br>mess.&hellip;..<\/p><\/blockquote><blockquote><p><strong>&ldquo;It is no exaggeration to say<br>there are likely dozens of institutions around the world wanting to<br>commercialize iPS cell-based products.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote><blockquote><p>&ldquo;Will they all have to pay expensive<br>licensing fees or end up in court?<br>&hellip;or will the patent holders<br>voluntarily and freely allow others to commercialize iPS cell-based<br>medical treatments?<\/p><\/blockquote><blockquote><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think so.<\/p><\/blockquote><blockquote><p>&ldquo;This could get really messy.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/aa0ce_ZX0PoUag-pE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\">Source:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/blogspot\/uqpFc\/~3\/ZX0PoUag-pE\/a-patent-war-on-ips-one-researchers-view.html\">http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/blogspot\/uqpFc\/~3\/ZX0PoUag-pE\/a-patent-war-on-ips-one-researchers-view.html<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the California stem cell agencypushes ever more aggressively to turn research into cures, the secondlargest share of its awards, in terms of numbers of grants, has goneto efforts involving induced pluripotent cells, also known asreprogrammed adult cells.But questions do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/stem-cell-therapy\/a-patent-war-on-ips-one-researchers-view-3.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1246878],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1063584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem-cell-therapy","category-stem-cells"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}