Biothera and MIT File Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Biorgin.EAGAN, Minn. -- Biothera and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, (MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology ) filed a patent infringement lawsuit today against Biorgin, a Brazilian company, for selling beta 1,3/1,6 gluco polysaccharide ingredients in the U.S. for nutritional supplements and functional foods. Biothera and MIT charged Biorigin with six counts of patent infringement in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois. Massachusetts Institute of Technology owns and licenses to Biothera certain patents that are part of the litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. . The plaintiffs seek a permanent injunction and unspecified damages from Biorigin. "Biothera has a formidable intellectual property portfolio that provides exclusivity to market our gluco polysaccharide in the U.S.," said Richard G. Mueller, Biothera president and chief executive officer. Biothera has more than 40 U.S. patents and patents pending, as well as additional patents in more than 20 countries, protecting the matter of composition, manufacturing and use of beta 1,3/1,6 gluco polysaccharide derived from yeast (Saccharomyces Saccharomyces: see yeast. cerevisiae). Biorigin is a business unit of Zilor companies with its research and development center located in Macatuba, Brazil and with sales offices in Lencois Paulista, Brazil and Sao Paulo, Brazil. According to Biorigin's website, the company sells yeast cell walls that contains a high percentage of manannoligosacharides and beta glucans glucans (gloo´kans), n.pl the polyglucose compounds such as cellulose, starch, amylose, glycogen amylose, and callose. , which enhance immune system responses. Biothera has successfully defended its patents against infringement in four previous lawsuits. About Biothera, the Immune Health Company Biothera is a biotechnology company dedicated to improving immune health. The company manufactures and markets food-grade ingredients that support healthy immune function to the functional food, nutritional supplement, cosmetic and animal nutrition markets. Biothera is also developing pharmaceuticals that engage the innate immune system
The process by which the cellular elements of the blood are formed. The three main types of cells are the red cells (erythrocytes), which serve to carry oxygen, the white cells (leukocytes), which function in the prevention of and recovery from (production of blood cells) and infectious disease. Website: www.biotherapharma.com. |
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