DNAprint Genomics (DNAG)

[mingwan0]

W2P, yes it must be the same patent (US: 60/467,613 - Methods and Markers for Accurate Estimates of Human Ancestry). I did wonder myself whether or not the statement: "the company will refrain from presenting details of the discovery until the findings are published by the US Patent and Trademark Office" could be taken to infer that the patent is about to be/has been granted by the US Patent Office? It has been 18 months since the application was made...

Yes, it came from the IPDL, which has undergone a bit of a facelift in the last week or two (amongst other things they merged two formerly separate searches). At the moment there is only the front page. The front page database is updated to 26 February, whereas the full text database is updated to 12 February. Whether this means we will get the full text to this patent in two weeks time I do not know, as the lag in updates may not be the same as the lag between the front page and full text updates for a given patent of course. There is no corresponding entry on either the US Patent Office or Espacenet databases.

Incidentally, for the benefit of others, the IPDL search page is here:

http://www.wipo.int/ipdl/en/search/pct/search-adv.jsp

You have to use a keyword search parameter in the query box. I usually use the term "in/frudakis".

Interesting point about the dates. I think that we can comfortably infer that Mark Shriver was involved with the company some time before July 2002.

I agree the details on this one will be very interesting.

Those are good questions you ended your post with! Worth repeating. Does this qualify as the company having been mentioned along side of Shriver as a contributor to his research? Are these Paul McKeigue's markers, or ours? Just curious...I get confused you know. You and me both Mike!