Hard work pays off! Tooting my horn for a minute.

[RazzyB]

My boss and I were just awarded a patent:

6,890,736

search at this link

What a hard process, especially in this field. Took about 5 years since I completed the work, to receive this.

 

[Max Power]

Cool, congratulations!

 

[ForumBlue]

My boss and I were just awarded a patent:

6,890,736

search at this link

What a hard process, especially in this field. Took about 5 years since I completed the work, to receive this.

I've got no clue what any of that means, But "GOOD for you. Congratulations!"

 

[RazzyB]

I've got no clue what any of that means...

Neither do I , hope I never have to go to court for this . Just kidding. Simply put, it's the addition of a class of chemicals to a culture broth for the increased expression of recombinant proteins.

yeah, I admit it, I'm a science geek

 

[ForumBlue]

Neither do I , hope I never have to go to court for this . Just kidding. Simply put, it's the addition of a class of chemicals to a culture broth for the increased expression of recombinant proteins.

yeah, I admit it, I'm a science geek

OK, Now the you've explained it that way, It's all crystal clear.
LOL

 

[JIM_C]

My boss and I were just awarded a patent:

6,890,736

search at this link

What a hard process, especially in this field. Took about 5 years since I completed the work, to receive this.

Outstanding! You should be proud. I read the summary and thought of a few questions (I have a meeting in a few minutes; sorry I don't have time to read the whole thing right now).
1. This invention is not specific for a given protein, is it?
2. Have you compared this approach with methylase mutated (or knockout) cell lines? Do any exist?
3. Does the invention cause any conformational differences in the protein(s) compared to control media without the cytidine analog?

Good stuff, by the way. My post-doc project involved protein-protein interactions with respect to G-protein coupled receptor signaling mechanisms. Sometimes it was hell getting the cells to express functional recombinant protein - then, they were membrane-bound and I'd lose most of it during extraction.
As for the patent, I started doing patent law full time after my post-doc. So all of this is very interesting to me.
So, if your in-house patent attorney needs to farm out any work, I'm available
.........JIM

 

[BIG JOE]

I've got no clue what any of that means, But "GOOD for you. Congratulations!"

Same for me Brian..... But Congrats... Good on Ya

 

[drchris1024]

Outstanding! You should be proud. I read the summary and thought of a few questions (I have a meeting in a few minutes; sorry I don't have time to read the whole thing right now).
1. This invention is not specific for a given protein, is it?
2. Have you compared this approach with methylase mutated (or knockout) cell lines? Do any exist?
3. Does the invention cause any conformational differences in the protein(s) compared to control media without the cytidine analog?

Good stuff, by the way. My post-doc project involved protein-protein interactions with respect to G-protein coupled receptor signaling mechanisms. Sometimes it was hell getting the cells to express functional recombinant protein - then, they were membrane-bound and I'd lose most of it during extraction.
As for the patent, I started doing patent law full time after my post-doc. So all of this is very interesting to me.
So, if your in-house patent attorney needs to farm out any work, I'm available
.........JIM

I think I saw a thread similar to this on TDS. CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

 

[RazzyB]

I think I saw a thread similar to this on TDS. CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

Didn't post my 'triumph' over there...are you referring to JIMC's post? Anyways,

 

[drchris1024]

Didn't post my 'triumph' over there...are you referring to JIMC's post? Anyways,

I was being sarcastic . You didn't mention HPOP in there anywhere, besides no place to post that over there, you didn't ask a question???

Does that patent have a cash cow that comes with it?