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UK Supreme Court invalidates transgenic mouse patents for insufficiency

Wednesday, 24 June 2020

Katherine Ellis

Patents

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals' European patent EP 1360287 and its divisional EP 2264163 relate to methods of producing transgenic mice able to produce antibodies having human sequences, and the mice produced thereby. These patents covered the idea of producing mice having mixed human-murine gene sequences that could be subsequently modified t...

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