Advanced Biotherapy Inc., of Los Angeles, was issued U.S. Patent No...Amnis Corp., of Seattle, was issued U.S. Patent Nos...Chiron Corp., of Emeryville, Calif., was granted U.S. Patent No

Lorus Therapeutics Inc., of Toronto, said the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office allowed a patent to protect its intellectual property involving a lead anticancer target, the R1 component of ribonucleotide reductase...Lorus said the patent broadens the protection it obtained in a U.S...Oncolytics Biotech Inc., of Calgary, Alberta, received U.S. Patent No

BioCurex Inc., of Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif., was granted U.S. Patent No...CollaGenex Pharmaceuticals Inc., of Newtown, Pa., was granted U.S. Patent No...Esperion Therapeutics Inc., of Ann Arbor, Mich., was granted U.S. Patent No

Transkaryotic Therapies Inc., of Cambridge, Mass., was issued U.S. Patent No

Demegen Inc., of Pittsburgh, received U.S. Patent No...Egea Biosciences Inc., of San Diego, was granted U.S. Patent No...MethylGene Inc., of Montreal, received U.S. Patent 6,506,735 titled "Optimized Antisense Oligonucleotides Complementary to DNA Methyltransferase Sequences" covering optimized antisense oligonucleotides complementary to the DNA methyltransferase gene or its RNA transcript, including second-generation oligonucleotides, and methods for using such antisense oligonucleotides as

SuperGen Inc., of Dublin, Calif., was issued U.S. Patent No

TissueInformatics Inc., of Pittsburgh, said it received from the U.S. Patent Office a notice of allowance covering tissue feature database construction...Specifically, the patent would cover a computer-implemented method of compiling and providing a database of structural, cell function or mechanical feature values for a defined set of tissue specimens

Royer Biomedical Inc., of Frederick, Md., was awarded U.S. Patent No...Celgene Corp., of Warren, N.J., received U.S. Patent No...Cima Labs Inc., of Minneapolis, was issued U.S. Patent No

Applied Genetic Technologies Corp., of Alachua, Fla., and the University of Florida in Gainesville, received U.S. Patent No...Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc., of Cambridge, Mass., was issued a U.S...patent covering intramuscular administration of therapeutic genes controlled by its cell-signaling regulation technology - the product concept being used in Ariad's erythropoietin (EPO) anemia product candidate

Provectus Pharmaceuticals Inc., of Knoxville, Tenn., received U.S. Patent No...SuperGen Inc., of Dublin, Calif., was issued U.S. Patent No...Xeotron Corp., of Houston, was granted U.S. Patent No

Astex Technology Ltd., of Cambridge, UK, was issued U.S. Patent No...Astex also said it received from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office a notice of allowance for a second antimicrobial drug target...Ganeden Biotech Inc., of Cleveland, received from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office a notice of allowance protecting its topical antifungal product

Vion Pharmaceuticals Inc., of New Haven, Conn., received U.S. Patent No

PharmaStem Therapeutics Inc., of Wayne, Pa., was awarded U.S. Patent No...Vasogen Inc., of Toronto, received from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office a notice of allowance for an application protecting the use of Vasogen's immune modulation therapy to treat chronic heart failure

Adolor Corp., of Exton, Pa., received U.S. Patent No...Aphios Corp., of Woburn, Mass., was granted U.S. Patent No...Biolog Inc., of Hayward, Calif., received U.S. Patent No

Ltd., of Brisbane, Australia, was awarded U.S. Patent No...MethylGene Inc., of Montreal, received U.S. Patent No...TopoTarget Prolifix A/S, of Copenhagen, Denmark, was granted U.S. Patent No

subsidiary received from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office an allowance for a patent protecting intellectual property involving the mechanism of action for its lead anticancer drug, NC381...Medicure Inc., of Winnepeg, Manitoba, received U.S. Patent No

Alteon Inc., of Ramsey, N.J., was awarded U.S. Patent No...Aspira Biosystems Inc., of South San Francisco, received U.S. Patent No...Sonus Pharmaceuticals Inc., of Bothell, Wash., was awarded U.S. Patent No

Sangamo Biosciences Inc., of Richmond, Calif., was granted U.S. Patent No...Transmolecular Inc., of Birmingham, Ala., was awarded U.S. Patent Nos...Unigene Laboratories Inc., of Fairfield, N.J., was awarded U.S. Patent No

Inc., of Bothell, Wash., was issued U.S. Patent No...Of note, the company said, is U.S. Patent No...The company also was awarded U.S. Patent No