Abandoned Rice Patent Applications
Many applications never make it to becoming actual patents, but are rather abandoned during the examination process. When this occurs, the inventions disclosed in the patent application become available for public to use, as long as they are not the subject of another granted patent. For U.S. applications reciting rice sequences in the claims, we found that roughly 30% are abandoned (Figure 1). The table below shows the applications that recite rice sequences (or sequences highly similar to rice) in the claims that are abandoned, and that did not have any pending continuations as of March 2008.
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Figure 1: Pending vs. Abandoned U.S. Rice Patent Applications |
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| Application No. | Assignee | Title | No. of Sequences in Claims | Status Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20050150008 | Agrigenesis Biosciences Limited
Wrightson Seeds Limited |
Compositions isolated from forage grasses and methods of use | 190 | 30 Jan ’08 |
| 20030237108 | Agrigenesis Biosciences Limited | Compositions isolated from forage grasses and methods for their use | 88 | 20 March ’08 |
| 20070054278 | Applera Corporation | Polymorphisms in nucleic acid molecules encoding human enzyme proteins,methods of detection and uses thereof | 558824 | 30 Jan ’08 |
| 20010036654 | ARCH Development Corporation | Canola acetyl-CoA carboxylase compositions and methods of use | 14 | 30 Jan ’08 |
| 20020115085 | Avalon Pharmaceuticals | Cancer gene determination and therapeutic screening using signature gene sets |
318 | 20 March ’08 |
| 20040023395 | Bionox, Inc. | Transgenic tetraploid plants and methods of production | 46 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20020092041 | California, The Regents of the University of | PROCEDURES AND MATERIALS FOR CONFERRING DISEASE RESISTANCE IN PLANTS |
12 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20040221332 | Cropdesign N.V. | Plant growth regulating genes, proteins and uses thereof | 104 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20010010931 | E I du Pont De Nemours and Company | Plant glycolysis and respiration enzymes | 20 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20020001843 | E I du Pont De Nemours and Company | Starch biosynthetic enzymes | 20 | 20 March ’08 |
| 20020009801 | E I du Pont De Nemours and Company | Amino acid decarboxylases | 20 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20020066120 | E I du Pont De Nemours and Company | PLANT MYB-RELATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS | 50 | 20 March ’08 |
| 20020119546 | E I du Pont De Nemours and Company | Squalene synthesis enzymes | 16 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20020152497 | E I du Pont De Nemours and Company | Nucleic acid fragments encoding proteins involved in stress response | 104 | 20 March ’08 |
| 20020182704 | E I du Pont De Nemours and Company | Plant proteinases | 56 | 20 March ’08 |
| 20020187539 | E I du Pont De Nemours and Company | Plant myb-related transcription factors | 50 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20030003471 | E I du Pont De Nemours and Company | cDNAs encoding polypeptides | 106 | 20 March ’08 |
| 20030017978 | E I du Pont De Nemours and Company | Spf1-related transcription factors | 12 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20030066102 | E I du Pont De Nemours and Company | Plant gene for p-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase | 9 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20030082787 | E I du Pont De Nemours and Company | Plant histidine biosynthetic enzymes | 7 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20030084475 | E I du Pont De Nemours and Company | Nucleic acid fragments and proteins affecting storage organelle formation and methods of use |
14 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20030088083 | E I du Pont De Nemours and Company | Metal-binding proteins | 14 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20030088882 | E I du Pont De Nemours and Company | Fructokinase | 12 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20030104593 | E I du Pont De Nemours and Company | Plant sorbitol biosynthetic | 22 | 20 March ’08 |
| 20030119165 | E I du Pont De Nemours and Company | Plant transcription factors | 43 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20030140372 | E I du Pont De Nemours and Company | Genes for desaturases to alter lipid profiles in corn | 19 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20030167508 | E I du Pont De Nemours and Company | Novel plant tryptophan synthase beta subunit | 10 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20030167509 | E I du Pont De Nemours and Company | Plant histidine biosynthetic enzymes | 2 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20030177522 | E I du Pont De Nemours and Company | Plant folate biosynthetic genes | 2 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20030186362 | E I du Pont De Nemours and Company | Plant cell cycle regulatory proteins | 18 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20030217384 | E I du Pont De Nemours and Company | Obtusifoliol 14a-demethylase | 4 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20040064848 | E I du Pont De Nemours and Company | Chorismate biosynthesis enzymes | 28 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20040214216 | E I du Pont De Nemours and Company | Plant amino acyl-tRNA synthetase | 6 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20060005277 | E I du Pont De Nemours and Company | cDNAs encoding polypeptides | 106 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20030172411 | E I du Pont De Nemours and Company PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, Inc. |
Disease resistance factors | 16 | 20 March ’08 |
| 20050074862 | E I du Pont De Nemours and Company
PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, Inc. |
Polynucleotides encoding defense responde proteins | 2 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20020045592 | ELITRA PHARMACEUTICALS, Inc | Genes identified as required for proliferation in escherichia coli | 397 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20030177524 | FALCO SAVERIO CARL; RAFALSKI J. ANTONI; WENG ZUDE | Gene involved in pyrimidine biosynthesis in plants | 8 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20030188334 | Famodu Omolayo O; Maxwell Carl A | Magnesium chelatase | 2 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20030170845 | Famodu Omolayo O; Orozco Emil M | Tetrahydrofolate metabolic enzymes | 70 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20030177532 | Gemstar (Cambridge) Limited | Manipulation of starch granule size and number | 24 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20030200564 | Gemstar (Cambridge) Limited | Starch modification | 35 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20050144667 | Horticulture and Food Research Institute of New Zealand Limited, The | Plant polypeptides and polynucleotides encoding same | 12 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20040048253 | Incyte Corporation | Molecules for diagnostics and therapeutics | 422 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20030134283 | Incyte Genomics, Inc. | Genes regulated in dendritic cell differentiation | 260 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20030106106 | Japan Tobacco, Inc. | Flower organ-specific gene and its promoter sequence | 1 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20020194646 | Large Scale Biology Corporation | Methods of creating dwarf phenotypes in plants | 122 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20030162291 | McGill University | Clk-2, cex-7 and coq-4 genes, and uses thereof | 50 | 20 March ’08 |
| 20030181408 | Merck & Co., Inc. | Genes essential for microbial proliferation and antisense thereto | 469 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20040029129 | Merck & Co., Inc. | Identification of essential genes in microorganisms | 78581 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20020170089 | Millennium Pharmaceuticals | Nucleic acids encoding defense inducible proteins and uses thereof | 22 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20020192813 | Monsanto Technology | PLANT EXPRESSION VECTORS | 6 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20030165947 | Monsanto Technology | Plant regulatory sequences for selective control of gene expression | 28 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20040093638 | Nara Institute of Science and Technology | Method for promoting fatty acid synthesis in a plant | 2 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20040091860 | National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences | Rice peroxidases with various characteristics | 21 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20050034189 | National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences | Chitin oligosaccharide elicitor- and gibberellin-responsive genes in plants, and uses thereof |
4 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20040229233 | NGK Insulators, Ltd. | Human housekeeping genes and human-tissue specific genes | 200 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20050196754 | Nuvelo, Inc. | Novel nucleic acids and polypeptides | 60736 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20060123505 | National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences
RIKEN Foundation for Advancement of InterNational Science |
Full-length plant cDNA and uses thereof | 56791 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20030203372 | Oxford Biomedica (UK) Ltd. | Analysis method | 497 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20020142319 | Paradigm Genetics Inc. | Expressed sequences of Arabidopsis thaliana | 900 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20030115639 | Paradigm Genetics Inc. | Expressed sequences of arabidopsis thaliana | 999 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20020023281 | Paradigm Genetics Inc. | Expressed sequences of arabidopsis thaliana | 999 | 31 Jan ’08 |
| 20030167505 | Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. | Cell cycle nucleic acids, polypeptides and uses thereof | 2 | 20 March ’08 |
| 20040068767 | Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. | Maize cellulose synthases and uses thereof | 6 | 1 Feb ’08 |
| 20040078844 | Plant Bioscience Limited
Morphochem AG |
Methods and means for gene silencing | 3 | 1 Feb ’08 |
| 20020108140 | Purdue Research Foundation | COMPOSITIONS and METHODS FOR ENHANCING DISEASE RESISTANCE IN PLANTS | 35 | 20 March ’08 |
| 20020076775 | Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. | WRKY transcription factors and methods of use | 36 | 1 Feb ’08 |
| 20050055748 | Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. | Stress-responsive genes, regulatory elements, and methods of use for same | 14 | 1 Feb ’08 |
| 20040019931 | Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc | Methods and compositions for modifying oil and protein content in plants | 6 | 1 Feb ’08 |
| 20070020637 | Research Association for Biotechnology | Full-length cDNA | 4990 | 1 Feb ’08 |
| 20040010815 | Syngenta Biotechnology, Inc. | Identification and characterization of plant genes | 414 | 1 Feb ’08 |
| 20030049814 | Syngenta Limited | Herbicide resistant plants | 4 | 1 Feb ’08 |
| 20030079246 | Syngenta Limited | Herbicide resistant plants | 4 | 1 Feb ’08 |
| 20030135888 | Syngenta Participations AG | Genes that are modulated by posttranscriptional gene silencing | 649 | 1 Feb ’08 |
| 20030145347 | Syngenta Participations AG | Grain processing method and transgenic plants useful therein | 9 | 1 Feb ’08 |
| 20040060084 | Syngenta Participations AG | DNA comprising rice anther-specific gene and transgenic plant transformed therewith |
6 | 1 Feb ’08 |
| 20050132438 | Syngenta Participations AG | Novel monocotylednous plant genes and uses thereof | 20 | 1 Feb ’08 |
| 20070016976 | Syngenta Participations AG | Plant genes involved in defense against pathogens | 19 | 1 Feb ’08 |
| 20010051713 | Syngenta | DNA comprising rice anther-specific gene and transgenic plant transformed therewith |
6 | 20 March ’08 |
| 20040219675 | Syngenta | Nucleic acid molecules from rice encoding proteins for abiotic stresstolerance, enhanced yeild, disease resistance and altered nutritional qualityand uses thereof |
64 | 1 Feb ’08 |
| 20070089201 | The Dow Chemical Company
DFB Biotech, Inc. |
Plant production of immunoglobulins with reduced fucosylation | 12 | 1 Feb ’08 |
| 20040083501 | United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture | Plant genes that confer resistance to strains of Magnaporthe grisea having AVR CO39 cultivar specificity gene |
5 | 4 Feb ’08 |
| 20040103453 | Universitat Zurich
Syngenta Participations AG |
Lipoxygenase genes, promoters, transit peptides and proteins thereof | 10 | 4 Feb ’08 |
| 20030217389 | Washington State University Research Foundation | Novel peptides and methods of use | 34 | 4 Feb ’08 |
| 20030165870 | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation | Novel sequences of E. coli CFT073 | 252 | 4 Feb ’08 |
| 20020137139 | unknown | Nucleic acid and other molecules associated with lactation and muscle and fat deposition |
15122 | 4 Feb ’08 |
| 20030166241 | unknown | Plant amino acyl-tRNA synthetase | 22 | 20 March ’08 |
| 20040006788 | unknown | Procedures and materials for conferring disease resistance in plants | 12 | 4 Feb ’08 |
| 20040060081 | unknown | Plant genes that confer resistance to strains of magnaporthe grisea havingavri co39 cultivar specificity gene |
8 | 20 March ’08 |
| 20040096875 | unknown | Novel gene for controlling leaf shapes | 2 | 4 Feb ’08 |
| 20040199944 | unknown | Maize H3C4 promoter combined with the first intron of rice actin, chimericgene comprising it and transformed plant |
3 | 5 Feb ’08 |
| 20060026704 | unknown | Vector for the production of transplastomic angiosperm plants | 5 | 20 March ’08 |
| 20060026721 | unknown | Plant cellulose synthases | 22 | 20 March ’08 |
| 20070060743 | unknown | Novel nucleic acids and polypeptides | 8051 | 4 Feb ’08 |