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Benitec Relocates to Sydney, Receives Notice of Allowance for US Patent Application

Aug 11, 2011
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Benitec said this week that it has relocated its headquarters from Melbourne to Sydney in Australia.

According to the company, its CEO Peter French is based in Sydney.

The company also announced that it has received notice from the US Patent and Trademark Office that it will receive a patent on an application, No.20030159161, from its Graham patent family, which broadly covers its core expressed RNAi technology.

The company received a notice of allowance on a related patent application last month (GSN 7/28/2011).

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