Reagents and methods useful for detecting diseases of the breast
CA 2308029 A1 · Owner: Stroupe, Stephen D. · Inventors: Billing-Medel, Patricia A.; Hodges, Steven C.; Cohen, Maurice
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A set of contiguous and partially overlapping RNA sequences and polypeptides encoded thereby, designated as BS106 and transcribed from breast tissue is described. These sequences are useful for the detecting diagnosing, staging, monitoring, prognosticating preventing or treating, or determining the predisposition of an individual to diseases and conditions of the breast such as breast cancer. Also provided are antibodies which specifically bind to BS106-encoded polypeptide or protein, and agonists or inhibitors which prevent action of the tissue-specific BS106 polypeptide which molecules are useful , for the therapeutic treatment of breast diseases tumors or metastases.
Read the whole patent
Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed October 19, 1998. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended October 19, 2018.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by October 19, 2020.
- We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
Timeline
Timeline From CIPO dates
Sources & verification
Official CIPO records
Everything on this page comes from the CIPO record linked above. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.