Biotech Values

[DewDiligence]

Apo A1 quiz answer:

>it must be the US government as the gene was cloned by NIH researchers.<

It was a trick question: nobody owns a patent on the Apo A1 or Apo A1 Milano molecules per se—they are in the public domain.

However, SemBioSys has a pending patent on the production of apolipoproteins using transgenic plants:

http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fn...