Blood Banking

Therapeutic company files five patent infringement lawsuits

Published in Women's Health Weekly, March 11th, 2004

PharmaStem Therapeutics, Inc., has filed a lawsuit for patent infringement, in the United States District Court, Northern District of California, against five companies active in umbilical cord blood banking.

Named as defendants are Alpha Cord, Inc., Cord Partners Inc., Cryobank for Oncologic and Reproductive Donors, Inc. (CORD), Cryobanks International, Inc. and New England Cord Blood Bank, Inc.

PharmaStem's lawsuit is for the infringement of United States Patents No. 5,004,681, 5,192,553, 6,461,645 and 6,569,427. This patent portfolio covers pioneering and fundamental inventions in the collection, preservation and growth of umbilical cord and...

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