MCET Stem cells interesting from the 10K:
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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