SEPTEMBER, 2011 Gene-Related Patents Issued - Full patent: http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm

CHEMISTRY: MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND MICROBIOLOGY

Pat No

Title

Assignee

Date Issued

Country

8,021,845

Probes for detecting obesity gene

ARKRAY, Inc.

20-Sep-11

Japan

8,017,324

ENPP1 (PC-1) gene haplotype associated with the risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes and their applications

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

13-Sep-11

France

8,021,876

Methods of isolation, expansion and differentiation of fetal stem cells from chorionic villus, amniotic fluid, and placenta and therapeutic uses thereof

Children's Medical Center Corporation

20-Sep-11

United States

8,026,098

Process for the removal of selectable marker gene sequences

Cobra Biologics Limited

27-Sep-11

United Kingdom

8,021,840

Diagnostic marker for interferon responsiveness in multiple sclerosis

Dianovix, Inc.

20-Sep-11

Canada

8,021,867

Rationally-designed meganucleases with altered sequence specificity and DNA-binding affinity

Duke University

20-Sep-11

United States

8,017,316

Methods and compositions for the identification of insect repellent compounds

Duke University

13-Sep-11

United States

8,026,052

Delivery of nucleic acids into eukaryotic genomes using in vitro assembled Mu transposition complexes

Finnzymes Oy

27-Sep-11

Finland

8,021,833

Method for reducing HIV viral budding by administering a VPS28-specfic antibody that disrupts Gag-TSG101-VPS28 binding interactions

Functional Genetics, Inc.

20-Sep-11

United States

8,017,375

Yeast organism producing isobutanol at a high yield

Gevo, Inc.

13-Sep-11

United States

8,012,714

Sequence diversity generation in immunoglobulins

Innovative Targeting Solutions, Inc.

6-Sep-11

United States

8,012,707

MN gene and protein

Institute of Virology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

6-Sep-11

Slovakia

8,021,878

Leafhopper ecdysone receptor nucleic acids, polypeptides, and uses thereof

Intrexon Corporation

20-Sep-11

United States

8,021,879

Adaptor protein that binds to mammalian toll-like receptor 3 and gene thereof

Japan Science and Technology Agency

20-Sep-11

Japan

8,017,400

Method for transformation using mutant acetolactate synthase gene

Kumiai Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.

13-Sep-11

Japan

8,017,398

Method for assaying protein-protein interaction

Life Technologies Corporation

13-Sep-11

United States

8,012,688

Gene expression profiling from FFPE samples

Life Technologies Corporation

6-Sep-11

United States

8,012,715

Methods for production of proteins

Life Technologies Corporation

6-Sep-11

United States

8,012,703

Microarrays and uses therefor

Life Technologies Corporation

6-Sep-11

United States

8,021,846

Method for determining azole resistance in Candida glabrata

Medical Diagnostic Laboratories, LL

20-Sep-11

United States

8,026,056

Compositions and methods for detecting Borrelia afzelii

Medical Diagnostic Laboratories, LLC

27-Sep-11

United States

8,026,082

Synthetic gene control region

Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.

27-Sep-11

United States

8,017,336

Method of examining zinc-deficient taste disturbance by determining expression level of taste receptor genes

Nihon University

13-Sep-11

Japan

8,017,334

Method for testing dysgeusia or stress by comparing expression patterns of taste receptor genes

Nihon University

13-Sep-11

Japan

8,026,096

In vivo active erythropoietin produced in insect cells

Protein Sciences Corporation

27-Sep-11

United States

8,017,318

Method for detecting and/or quantifying a known function from a nucleic acid sample

Proteus S.A.

13-Sep-11

France

8,026,062

Method of determining a chemotherapeutic regimen by assaying gene expression in primary tumors

Response Genetics, Inc.

27-Sep-11

United States

8,026,063

Method of examining inflammatory disease and method of screening remedy for imflammatory disease

Riken

27-Sep-11

Japan

8,021,875

Methods for expression of transgenes

Roche Madison Inc.

20-Sep-11

United States

8,017,380

Real-time PCR system

Sony Corporation

13-Sep-11

Japan

8,012,731

Phosphodiesterase and gene thereof

Tanabe Seiyaku Co., Ltd.

6-Sep-11

Japan

8,017,333

Methods for predicting the risk of diabetic nephropathy using genetic markers and arrays containing the same

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

13-Sep-11

China P. Rep.

8,026,067

Marker for prenatal diagnosis and monitoring

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

27-Sep-11

Hong Kong

8,026,053

Mutations of the PIK3CA gene in human cancers

The Johns Hopkins University

27-Sep-11

United States

8,026,059

Treatment response in generalized social phobia

The Regents of the University of California

27-Sep-11

United States

8,021,838

Transcriptional regulation of target genes

The Rockefeller University

20-Sep-11

United States

8,017,369

System and method of up-regulating bone morphogenetic proteins (BMP) gene expression in bone cells via the application of fields generated by specific and selective electric and electromagnetic signals

The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania

13-Sep-11

United States

8,021,865

Thermophilic micro-organisms for ethanol production

TMO Renewables Limited

20-Sep-11

United Kingdom

8,017,368

Molecular delivery to cells using aspirin-related compounds

University of South Florida

13-Sep-11

United States

DATA PROCESSING

Pat No

Title

Assignee

Date Issued

Country

8,024,277

Reconstruction of gene networks and calculating joint probability density using time-series microarray, and a downhill simplex method

Academia Sinica

20-Sep-11

Taiwan

8,014,956

MicroRNA precursors

Industrial Technology Research Institute

6-Sep-11

Taiwan

8,024,129

Method and apparatus for searching gene sequence

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20-Sep-11

Korea

8,027,821

Method for determining gene knockouts

The Penn State Research Foundation

27-Sep-11

United States

8,014,953

RNA surveillance among curated proteins

The Regents of the University of California

6-Sep-11

United States

DRUG

Pat No

Title

Assignee

Date Issued

Country

8,012,937

Nucleic acid and corresponding protein entitled 98P4B6 useful in treatment and detection of cancer

Agensys, Inc.

6-Sep-11

United States

8,021,653

Shuttle vector for Bifidobacterium and Escherichia coli

Anaeropharma Science Inc.

20-Sep-11

Japan

8,026,215

Methods and compositions for control of fetal growth via modulation of relaxin

Corthera, Inc.

27-Sep-11

United States

8,026,280

Histone deacetylase inhibitors

Errant Gene Therapeutics, LLC

27-Sep-11

United States

8,012,947

Methods and compositions for promoting wound healing

Hospital for Special Surgery

6-Sep-11

United States

8,021,665

Identification and application of antibiotic synergy

Trius Therapeutics, Inc.

20-Sep-11

United States

MULTICELLULAR LIVING ORGANISMS

Pat No

Title

Assignee

Date Issued

Country

8,013,216

Method for the production of .gamma.-linolenic acid and/or stearidonic acid in transgenic Brassicaceae and Linaceae

BASF Plant Science GmbH

6-Sep-11

Germany

8,013,208

Methods for producing antibodies

Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha

6-Sep-11

Japan

8,017,829

Selective expression of genes in plants

Purdue Research Foundation

13-Sep-11

United States

8,013,212

Site-specific recombination in eukaryotes and constructs useful therefor

The Salk Institute for Biological Studies

6-Sep-11

United States

NATURAL RESINS OR DERIVATIVES

Pat No

Title

Assignee

Date Issued

Country

8,022,174

C-type lectin transmembrane antigen expressed in human prostate cancer and uses therof

Agensys, Inc.

20-Sep-11

United States

8,013,126

84P2A9: a prostate and testis specific protein highly expressed in prostate cancer

Agensys, Inc.

6-Sep-11

United States

8,013,128

Antibodies and related molecules that bind to PSCA proteins

Agensys, Inc.

6-Sep-11

United States

8,017,731

Hemopoietic receptor protein, NR10

Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha

13-Sep-11

Japan

8,017,738

Hemopoietin receptor protein, NR10

Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha

13-Sep-11

Japan

8,013,114

Fusion proteins based upon somatostatin receptors

The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System

6-Sep-11

United States

8,017,726

Anti-inflammatory compounds and uses thereof

Yale University

13-Sep-11

United States

ORGANIC COMPOUNDS

Pat No

Title

Assignee

Date Issued

Country

8,013,135

Antibodies and molecules derived therefrom that bind to STEAP-1 proteins

Agensys, Inc.

6-Sep-11

United States

8,017,763

Chemically modified oligonucleotides

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

13-Sep-11

United States

8,026,352

Methods for determining the presence or absence of elite event RF-BN1 in Brassica plant material

Bayer Bioscience, N.V.

27-Sep-11

Belgium

8,013,145

SiRNA targeting cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 1B (p27, Kip1) (CDKN1B)

Dharmacon, Inc.

6-Sep-11

United States

8,022,199

SiRNA targeting myeloid differentiation primary response gene (88) (MYD88)

Dharmacon, Inc.

20-Sep-11

United States

8,022,198

siRNA targeting histamine receptor H1

Dharmacon, Inc.

20-Sep-11

United States

8,022,196

Polynucleotides and polypeptides involved in post-transcriptional gene silencing

E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company

20-Sep-11

United States

8,017,757

Kits and method for detecting human papilloma virus with oligo nucleotide bead array

Gyngene Bio Co., Ltd

13-Sep-11

Korea

8,017,742

Gene carrier

Japan Science and Technology Agency

13-Sep-11

Japan

8,017,750

Haemocoagulase

Konruns Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd

13-Sep-11

China P. Rep.

8,013,138

Chimeric promoters capable of mediating gene expression in plants upon pathogen infection and uses thereof

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Wissenschaften e.V.

6-Sep-11

Germany

8,013,146

RNA interference mediated inhibition of matrix metalloproteinase 13 (MMP13) gene expression using short interfering nucleic acid (siNA)

Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.

6-Sep-11

United States

8,013,143

RNA interference mediated inhibition of CXCR4 gene expression using short interfering nucleic acid (siNA)

Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.

6-Sep-11

United States

8,017,765

RNA interference mediated treatment of alzheimer's disease using short interfering nucleic acid (siNA)

Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.

13-Sep-11

United States

8,017,761

RNA interference mediated inhibition of Stearoyl-CoA desaturase (SCD) gene expression using short interfering nucelic acid (siNA)

Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.

13-Sep-11

United States

8,013,141

Promoter with high expression strength and over-expression in various tissues of plant, as well as application thereof

National Taiwan University

6-Sep-11

Taiwan

8,017,747

Apoptosis-inducing genes for treating cancer

Nationwide Children's Hospital, Inc.

13-Sep-11

United States

8,017,764

Therapeutic uses of inhibitors of RTP801L

Quark Pharmaceuticals Inc.

13-Sep-11

United States

8,026,355

Oligomeric compounds for the modulation of survivin expression

Santaris Pharma A/S

27-Sep-11

Denmark

8,017,749

Compositions and methods to treat cancer with cupredoxins and CpG rich DNA

The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

13-Sep-11

United States

8,022,197

Nucleic acid and gene derived from novel HCV strain and replicon-replicating cell using said gene

Tokyo Metropolitan Organization for Medical Research

20-Sep-11

Japan