The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office delivered some good news to the University of Wisconsin-Madison today (Thursday).
In dismissing a key challenge to James Thomson’s breakthrough discovery on stem cells by New York and California interests, the office cleared the way for the UW to benefit from the research in the years ahead.
Congratulations to the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, which holds the patent, and Thomson, who pioneered the stem cell procedures. Not only will the school benefit, but so will Wisconsin taxpayers.