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

D-Pharm Ltd., of Rehovot, Israel, was granted U.S. Patent No...DrugAbuse Sciences Inc., of Hayward, Calif., was awarded U.S. Patent No...Kaleidos Pharma Inc., of Seattle, 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

The company also was granted U.S. Patent No...Cepheid Inc., of Sunnyvale, Calif., was issued U.S. Patent No...Isolagen Inc., of Houston, was issued U.S. Patent No

Cepheid Inc., of Sunnyvale, Calif., was issued U.S. Patent No...Hybridon Inc., of Cambridge, Mass., was issued U.S. Patent No...Targeted Genetics Corp., of Seattle, said U.S. Patent No

Epimmune Inc., of San Diego, was issued U.S. Patent No...Nanotherapeutics Inc., of Alachua, Fla., was issued U.S. Patent No...Quark Biotech Inc., of Cleveland, was issued U.S. Patent No

Advanced Life Sciences Inc., of Woodridge, Ill., was awarded U.S. Patent No...BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc., of Novato, Calif., was issued U.S. Patent No...Digene Corp., of Gaithersburg, Md., was issued U.S. Patent No

Inc., of Montgomery, Texas, was issued U.S. Patent No...Maxim Pharmaceuticals Inc., of San Diego, was issued U.S. Patent No...NeoTherapeutics Inc. , of Irvine, Calif., was issued U.S. Patent No

Avigen Inc., of Alameda, Calif., was awarded U.S. Patent No...Endovasc Ltd., of Montgomery, Texas, was awarded U.S. Patent No...ZymoGenetics Inc., of Seattle, was awarded U.S. Patent No