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Patenting pluripotence: the next battle for stem cell intellectual property

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What will be the impact of induced pluripotent stem cell discoveries on the current stem cell patent landscape?

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  1. Katja Triller Vrtovec is at the Center for Law and the Biosciences at Stanford University School of Law, Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, California 94305, USA,,

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  2. Christopher Thomas Scott is at the Stanford University Program on Stem Cells in Society, Center for Biomedical Ethics, 701 Welch Road, Suite A1105, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA. cscott@stanford.edu,

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Vrtovec, K., Scott, C. Patenting pluripotence: the next battle for stem cell intellectual property. Nat Biotechnol 26, 393–395 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0408-393

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