Nucleic acid encoding rate agouti related protein
CA 2330438 A1 · Owner: Yu, Hong · Inventors: Yu, Hong; Guan, Xiaoming; Van Der Ploeg, Leonardus H. T.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
This invention concerns nucleic acid encoding for rat agouti related protein. Agouti related protein is a neuropeptide that may play a role in the central regulation of feeding behavior and energy metabolism via interactions with the melanocortin pathways. This invention also relates to assays utilizing the novel nucleic acid of this invention.
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 April 26, 1999. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended April 26, 2019.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by April 26, 2021.
- 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.