USPTO Orders Re-Examination of Benitec s US Patent Based on Nucleonics Request

Dec 24, 2004

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The US Patent and Trademark Office earlier this month ordered a re-examination of Benitec’s US patent • numbered 6,573,099 and entitled “Genetic Constructs for Delaying or Repressing the Expression of a Target Gene” • pursuant to a request made by Nucleonics as part of a broader intellectual property dispute between the companies.

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