Chemistry: natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; – Proteins – i.e. – more than 100 amino acid residues – Blood proteins or globulins – e.g. – proteoglycans – platelet...
Reexamination Certificate
2007-05-29
2007-05-29
Zeman, Mary K. (Department: 1631)
Chemistry: natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins;
Proteins, i.e., more than 100 amino acid residues
Blood proteins or globulins, e.g., proteoglycans, platelet...
C530S387100, C530S387900, C530S389100, C424S130100, C424S138100, C424S139100, C424S141100, C424S172100, C435S007100, C436S501000, C436S813000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08255572
ABSTRACT:
This invention relates to nucleic acid, or fragments thereof, encoding the retinoblastoma polypeptide, the retinoblastoma polypeptide itself, methods of detecting a defective retinoblastoma gene in human patients, and methods of treating these patients.
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Dryja Thaddeus P.
Friend Stephen
IP Legal Strategies Group P.C.
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Meyer-Leon Leslie
Whitehead Institute
Zeman Mary K.
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