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Nature 438, 897 (15 December 2005) | doi:10.1038/438897a; Published online 14 December 2005
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Pokémon blocks gene name
Tom Simonite
A cancer research institute has been threatened with legal action by the US branch of Japanese video-game franchise Pokémon, after one of its researchers borrowed the company's trademark to name an oncogene.Pier Paolo Pandolfi of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, first called the new member of the POK family of genes Pokemon at a conference in 2001, claiming it was an acronym for POK erythroid myeloid ontogenic.
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