Elizabeth Donley, general counsel for the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), told California stem-cell researchers at a major conference recently that WARF will demand a significant chunk of royalties from any of California’s efforts.
The Wisconsin foundation, which is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin, announced at the conference that it holds two patents with extraordinarily broad claims to the use of embryonic stem cells until the year 2015, and that it intends to enforce the patents.