Two of the scientists questioning the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation’s key embryonic stem cell patents tried to patent similar discoveries themselves, the foundation said Wednesday.
Their patent applications were made after the foundation filed patent applications on the work of James Thomson, the first person to isolate human embryonic stem cells.
Neither of the scientists disclosed their patent applications when they filed declarations in April in support of two foundations on the coasts that are trying to have the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office overturn WARF’s patents, the Madison-based foundation said.