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by EdwardDiego 1675 days ago
What does the patent cover in this instance? The very concept of patching the gene? Or is it the mechanism of doing so?
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s1artibartfast 1675 days ago
It looks like mostly the use of a specific protein to treat the disease. This appears to be the original (and now expired) patent

https://patents.google.com/patent/CA2370081C/en?q=Alipogene+....

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EdwardDiego 1674 days ago
Cheers mate :)
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