Nereus Pharmaceuticals Inc., of San Diego, was issued U.S. Patent No...SemBioSys Inc., of Calgary, Alberta, was granted U.S. Patent No...Vical Inc., of San Diego, was issued U.S. Patent No

Athersys Inc., of Cleveland, was issued U.S. Patent No...Avigen Inc., of Alameda, Calif., was awarded U.S. Patent No...Cepheid Inc., of Sunnyvale, Calif., was issued U.S. Patent No

Diversa Corp., of San Diego, was issued U.S. Patent No...U.S. Genomics Inc., of Woburn, Mass., was issued U.S. Patent No...Viragen Inc., of Plantation, Fla., was issued U.S. Patent No

Hybridon Inc., of Cambridge, Mass., reported that the University of Massachusetts was issued U.S. Patent No...Isis Pharmaceuticals Inc., of Carlsbad, Calif., acquired a license to the patent, and others, in May 2001, from Hybridon, which included exclusive rights to sublicense the patents to third parties

Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc., of Cheshire, Conn., was issued U.S. Patent No...Diversa Corp., of San Diego, was issued U.S. Patent No...Signature BioScience also was issued U.S. Patent No

Merrimack Pharmaceuticals Inc., of Cambridge, Mass., said U.S. Patent No...Microbiotix Inc., of Worcester, Mass., was issued U.S. Patent No...Peregrine Pharmaceuticals Inc., of Tustin, Calif., was issued U.S. Patent No

Neurochem Inc., of Saint-Laurent, Quebec, was issued U.S. Patent No...ProtoTech Inc., of Kirkland, Wash., said U.S. Patent No...Ribozyme Pharmaceuticals Inc., of Boulder, Colo., was issued U.S. Patent No

BioSyntech Inc., of Laval, Quebec, was issued U.S. Patent No...Sunesis Pharmaceuticals Inc., of South San Francisco, was issued U.S. Patent No...Vaxin Inc., of Birmingham, Ala., received U.S. Patent No

BioTrove Inc., of Cambridge, Mass., was issued U.S. Patent No...Celgene Corp., of Warren, N.J., was issued U.S. Patent No...Copernicus Therapeutics Inc., of Cleveland, was awarded U.S. Patent No

Targepeutics Inc., of Hershey, Pa., was issued U.S. Patent No...Targeted Genetics Corp., of Seattle, said U.S. Patent No...Zyomyx Inc., of Hayward, Calif., was awarded U.S. Patent No

Alteon Inc., of Ramsey, N.J., was issued U.S. Patent No...Cepheid Inc., of Sunnyvale, Calif., was issued U.S. Patent No...Genteric Inc., of Alameda, Calif., was awarded U.S. Patent No

An item in the U.S. Patent Disclosures area in the Jan. 14, 2001, issue of BioWorld Today misstated the location of Large Scale Biology Corp

and Oxigene Inc., was issued U.S. Patent No...Biomira Inc., of Edmonton, Alberta, was awarded U.S. Patent No...EXegenics Inc., of Dallas, was awarded U.S. Patent No

The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System, of Austin, Texas, was awarded U.S. Patent No...Vical Inc., of San Diego, was awarded U.S. Patent No...Vivus Inc., of Mountain View, Calif., was awarded U.S. Patent No

Luna Analytics, of Blacksburg, Va., was awarded U.S. Patent No...MediGene AG, of Munich, Germany, was awarded U.S. Patent No...The company also was awarded U.S. Patent No

6,254,827, “Methods for Fabricating Multi-Component Devices for Molecular Biological Analysis and Diagnostics.” The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System, of Austin, Texas, was awarded U.S. Patent No...Variagenics Inc., of Cambridge, Mass., was issued U.S. Patent No...Xenomics Inc., of San Francisco, was awarded U.S. Patent No

3-Dimensional Pharmaceuticals Inc., of Exton, Pa., was issued U.S. Patent No...Aastrom Biosciences Inc., of Ann Arbor, Mich., was awarded U.S. Patent No...The company also was awarded U.S. Patent No

Diversa Corp., of San Diego, was issued U.S. Patent No...Nature Technology Corp., of Lincoln, Neb., was issued U.S. Patent No...ValiGen NV, of Newtown, Pa., was issued U.S. Patent No

Kosan Biosciences Inc., of Hayward, Calif., said it received U.S. Patent No...Pyrosequencing AB, of Uppsala, Sweden, said it received U.S. Patent Nos...U.S. Genomics Inc., of Woburn, Mass., said it was granted U.S. Patent No