OppKnock: "No one has asked where he got those samples from. Could it be a potential licensee that is alrady into the animal pharmaceutical industry? Is it another diagnostic company? I think this should be a good topic for discussion."
How's this for a discussion topic: Inverness owns Biosite. Biosite is were RECAF samples were sent. Biocurex annouces a canine version of RECAF Header of an Inverness Patent application: =========================== Application number: 20090061467 <<http://appft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html , then search on application number>> March 5, 2009
Methods and Compositions for Measuring Canine BNP and Uses Thereof
Abstract The present invention describes compositions and methods designed to determine the presence or amount of BNP or fragments thereof in a sample. In particular, the invention provides materials that may be configured to bind canine BNP in a sandwich assay format. The present invention provides, inter alia, assays designed to rapidly and accurately measure BNP-related species in non-human animals.
Inventors: Buechler; Kenneth F.; (Rancho Santa Fe, CA) ; Buechler; Joseph; (Carlsbad, CA) Correspondence Name and Address: Inverness Medical Innovations / WSGR;Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C. 650 Page Mill Road Palo Alto CA 94304 US
Assignee Name and Adress: BIOSITE INCORPORATED San Diego CA ===========================
Now, BNP isn't recaf but if Biosite is working on other canine markers... you connect the dots.