MultiCell Technologies Inc (MCET)

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A patented liver stem cell is part of MultiCell's IP. This is the latest 10K/SBA:

In December 2003, we acquired the exclusive worldwide rights to US Patent # 6129911, for Liver Stem Cells from Rhode Island Hospital. We agreed to pay an annual license fee of $20,000 for the first three years of the agreement and $10,000 per annum thereafter until a product is developed. Once a product is developed, if ever, the annual license fee will end and we will pay Rhode Island Hospital a 5% royalty on net sales of any product we sell covered by the patent until we pay an aggregate of $550,000 in royalties and a 2% royalty thereafter until the expiration of the patent. In April, 2005, the Company was granted US Patent # 6872389 for the liver stem cell invention of Dr. Ron Faris, MultiCell’s Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer. This patent contains twenty-four claims to a method of obtaining a population of liver cell clusters from adult stem cells and is an important enhancement to the Company’s adult stem cell portfolio. The Company has an exclusive, long-term license agreement with Rhode Island Hospital for use of the following patents owned by the hospital related to liver cell lines and Liver Assist Devices (LADs):


US Patent #6,017,760, Isolation and Culture of Porcine Hepatocytes, expires October 9, 2015;
US Patent #6,107,043, Immortalized Hepatocytes, expires February 8, 2019;
US Patent #5,043,260, Perfusion Device for Hepatocytes, expires August 27, 2008;
US Patent #6,129,911, Liver Stem Cell, expires October 10, 2017;
US Patent # 6,858,146 Artificial Liver Apparatus and Method (Sybiol), expires on February 20, 2019; and
US Patent # 6,872,389 Liver Stem Cell expires on July 8, 2019.
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