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Agricultural Biotechnology Intellectual Property: Standard Tables

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Summary
Utility patents by year, non-U.S. universities and nonprofits only
Year Utility patents
    Assignee(s) Title (patent number)  
 Number
1978 2
    OSAKA UNIVERSITY (Osaka, JP) Process for preparing virus disease live vaccines (4071618)  
    UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND (St. Lucia, AU) Process for producing feed protein (4115593)  
1979 1
    NATIONAL SEED DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATION LTD. (UK) (Newton, UK); KENT INCORP. SOC. FOR PROMOTING EXPERIMENTS IN HORTICULTURE (Maidstone, UK) Propagating woody plant material (4152869)  
1980 2
    SAGAMI CHEMICAL RESEARCH CENTER (Tokyo, JP); TOYO SODA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD. (Osaka, JP) Process for recovering protease (4212945)  
    TOYO SODA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD. (Osaka, JP); SAGAMI CHEMICAL RESEARCH CENTER (Tokyo, JP) Process for recovering protease (4212946)  
1981 1
    UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN (Saskatoon, CA) Vaccine for diarrhea caused by E. coli (4298597)  
1982 2
    EGYT GYOGYSZERVEGYESZETI GYAR (Budapest, HU) Plant growth regulating compositions (4310348)  
    UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN (Saskatoon, CA) Anucleated live E. coli vaccine (4311797)  
1983 2
    INSTITUT FRANCAIS DU PETROLE (Rueil-Malmaison, FR) Process for manufacturing sweetened liquors and derivatives thereof from cellulose-containing vegetable substrates (4378432)  
    RAMOT UNIVERSITY (Ramat-Aviv, IL) Vaccines obtained from bacterial mutant strains (4404186)  
1984 3
    EGG MARKETING BOARD (South Queensland, AU) Cultured egg-milk product (4440791)  
    EGYT GYOGYSZERVEGYESZETI GYAR (Budapest, HU) Bicyclo(2.2.1)heptane oximes used for plant growth regulating (4425158)  
    Individual inventor(s); GAKKO HOJIN KINKI DAIGAKU (Tokyo, JP) Plant growth regulator (4449997)  
1985 5
    INSTITUT FRANCAIS DU PETROLE (Rueil-Malmaison, FR) Production of glucose dehydrogenase and use of the resultant enzyme in the enzymatic synthesis of L-carnitine (4542098)  
    INSTITUTEORGANICHESKOI KHIMII (Kiev, UA) Bis-(N,N-dimethyl-N-carbodecyloxymethyl-N-ethylene-ammonium)-sulphide dichloride and use thereof (4557754)  
    RAMOT UNIVERSITY (Ramat-Aviv, IL) Plant growth method and composition (4507144)  
    SOUTH AFRICA INVENTIONS DEVELOPMENT CORP. (Pretoria, ZA) Manufacture and use of fowl egg antibodies (4550019)  
    UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH (Guelph, CA) Hybridization process utilizing a combination of cytoplasmic male sterility and herbicide tolerance (4517763)  
1986 5
    EGYT GYOGYSZERVEGYESZETI GYAR (Budapest, HU) N-substituted amino propane sulfonic acid derivatives and plant growth regulating use (4588435)  
    GYOGYNOVENY KUTATO INTEZET (Budakalasz, HU) Process for the sterile micropropagation of plant material (4569914)  
    LA TROBE UNIVERSITY (Melbourne, AU) Enzyme extraction and purification processes (4623625)  
    UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN (Saskatoon, CA) Production of improved plants having an increased tolerance to the presence of a normally deleterious concentration of a plurality of inorganic salts (4616100)  
    UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO (London, CA) Bacillus cereus subspecies israelensis (4609550)  
1987 8
    CENTRAAL DIERGENEESKUNDIG INST. (Lelystad, NL) Live purified Marek's disease vaccine (4673572)  
    CENTRAAL DIERGENEESKUNDIG INST. (Lelystad, NL) Deletion mutant of a herpesvirus and vaccine containing said virus (4680176)  
    COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORG. (CSIRO) (Canberra, AU) Babesiosis antigen and method for preparation (4661348)  
    ECOLE NATIONALE D'INGENIEURS DES TRAVAUX (Lyon, FR) Clone of the sea kale (Crambe maritima L.), and process for vegetative propagation thereof (4665031)  
    OSAKA UNIVERSITY (Osaka, JP) Expression vector carrying a gene coding for a phosphate-binding protein, a method for preparing the same and a method for preparing the same and a method for producing a polypeptide using the same (4703005)  
    RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN (Leiden, NL); Individual inventor(s) Process for the in-vitro transformation of plant protoplasts with plasmid DNA (4684611)  
    UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH (Guelph, CA) Hybridization using cytoplasmic male sterility and herbicide tolerance from nuclear genes (4658084)  
    UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH (Guelph, CA) Hybridization using cytoplasmic male sterility, cytoplasmic herbicide tolerance, and herbicide tolerance from nuclear genes (4658085)  
1988 6
    COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORG. (CSIRO) (Canberra, AU) Bacteroides nodosus vaccine (4737363)  
    EGYT GYOGYSZERVEGYESZETI GYAR (Budapest, HU) Plant growth regulating compounds and compositions and a process for the preparation thereof (4740228)  
    JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INST. (Tokyo, JP) Method of pretreatment in saccharification and fermentation of waste cellulose resource (4769082)  
    NATIONAL FEDERATION OF AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVE ASSOC. (Tokyo, JP); MEIJI SEIKA KAISHA LTD. (Tokyo, JP) Feeding method in breeding sows (4788065)  
    UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH (Guelph, CA) Production of cole crops which exhibit triazine tolerance (4767888)  
    YISSUM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT CO., HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM (Jerusalem, IL) Antifungal compositions containing trichoderma active against fusarium (4748021)  
1989 9
    DDR AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN (Berlin, DE) Device for solid phase sequencing of nucleic acid fragments (4882127)  
    GESELLSCHAFT FUR BIOTECHNOLOGISCHE FORSCHUNG MBH (Braunschweig, DE) Enhancing the translational initiation frequency of a gene (4826764)  
    GESELLSCHAFT FUR BIOTECHNOLOGISCHE FORSCHUNG MBH (Braunschweig, DE) Double-stranded vector and process using it (4863848)  
    JAPAN R&D ASSOC. FOR IMPROVEMENT OF ENZYME FUNCTION IN FOOD IND. (Tokyo, JP) Process for producing protease by cultivating a protease-producing mold in a liquid medium (4879235)  
    QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY (Kingston, CA) Process for extractive fermentation (4865973)  
    RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT TE GRONINGEN (Groningen, DK) Dipeptidase, its isolation from lactic acid bacteria, antibodies against the dipeptidase, the use of the dipeptidase and of the antibodies against it (4888284)  
    UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND (St. Lucia, AU) Conversion of sucrose to fructose and ethanol (4797360)  
    UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND (St. Lucia, AU) Ethanol production by zymomonas cultured in yeast-conditioned media (4885241)  
    UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT (Burlington, VT US); MCGILL UNIVERSITY (Montreal, CA) Synergistic herbicidal compositions comprising microbial herbicides and plant growth regulators (4808207)  
1990 3
    FORINTEK CANADA CORP. (Ottawa, CA) Production of thermostable xylanase and cellulase (4966850)  
    GROUPEMENT CHAMPENOIS D'EXPLOITATION VITICOLE (Epernay, FR); INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE (INRA) (Paris, FR) Process of grafted cuttings of stock and scion from in vitro (4937971)  
    UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH (Guelph, CA) Cell surface modification using a novel glycoproteinase of pasteurella haemolytica (4906571)  
1991 17
    CENTRAAL DIERGENEESKUNDIG INST. (Lelystad, NL) Deletion mutant of pseudorabies virus and vaccine containing said virus (5028426)  
    COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORG. (CSIRO) (Canberra, AU) Method of making staphylococcus aureus vaccine (5032522)  
    DDR AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN (Berlin, DE) Composition for increasing the yield of soybeans (5055126)  
    EUROPAISCHES LABORATORIUM FUR MOLEKULARBIOLOGIE (EMBL) (Heidelberg, DE) Hybridization method and probe (5053326)  
    INSTITUT ARMAND-FRAPPIER-UNIVERSITY OF QUEBEC (Montreal, CA) Integrated process for the production of food, feed and fuel from biomass (5047332)  
    LUBRIZOL CORP. (Wickliffe, OH US); COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORG. (CSIRO) (Canberra, AU) Plant anaerobic regulatory element (5001060)  
    M & D RESEARCH CO., LTD. (Tokyo, JP) Protease (5053333)  
    MCGILL UNIVERSITY (Montreal, CA) Shuttle vector, utilizing the E. coli asparagine synthetase gene, and capable of dominant transfection and amplification in animal cells (5011776)  
    MCGILL UNIVERSITY (Montreal, CA); UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT (Burlington, VT US) Process for controlling undesirable vegetation with Colletotrichum coccodes spores (5028253)  
    MOGEN INTERNATIONAL N.V. (Leiden, NL); RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN (Leiden, NL) Recombinant DNA: transformed microorganisms, plant cells and plants: a process for introducing an inducible property in plants, and a process for producing a polypeptide or protein by means of plants or plant cells (5057422)  
    NIPPON ZEON CO., LTD. (Tokyo, JP); U.S. NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH (Tokyo, JP); TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE (Tokyo, JP) Recombinant vaccinia virus expressing E-protein of Japanese encephalitis virus (5021347)  
    RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN (Leiden, NL); Individual inventor(s) Process for the activation of promoters of bacteria (5019501)  
    U.K. AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD RESEARCH COUNCIL (London, UK) In vitro embryo culture technique (5011780)  
    UNIVERSITY COLLEGE (CORK) (Cork, IE) Plasmid and uses thereof (5019506)  
    UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH (Guelph, CA) Leukotoxin gene of pasteurella haemolytica (5055400)  
    UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH (Guelph, CA) Rapid stick test for the diagnosis of bovine leukemia virus infection from serum or milk (5077194)  
    UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND (St. Lucia, AU) Ethanol production by zymomonas cultured in yeast-conditioned media (4985355)  
1992 18
    CELLTECH LTD. (Slough, UK); UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW (Glasgow, UK) Method for dominant selection in eucaryotic cells (5122464)  
    EUROPAISCHES LABORATORIUM FUR MOLEKULARBIOLOGIE (EMBL) (Heidelberg, DE) Process for sequencing nucleic acids (5124247)  
    EUROPAISCHES LABORATORIUM FUR MOLEKULARBIOLOGIE (EMBL) (Heidelberg, DE) Apparatus for carrying out chemical reaction sequences (5137698)  
    INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INST. (Hsin Chu, TW) Preparation of pyrocatecholic compounds (5122461)  
    INIZIATIVE MARITTIME 1991, S.R.L. (Turin, IT) Hybridization method and composition with alternating polysaccharide of sulfated N-acetylgalactosamine (5116727)  
    MCGILL UNIVERSITY (Montreal, CA) Composition for biocontrol of wild buckwheat (5082489)  
    RESEARCH ASSOC. FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS (Tokyo, JP) Polyhedrin gene and genetic engineering thereof (5145775)  
    RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN (Leiden, NL); Individual inventor(s) Process for introducing foreign DNA into the genome of plants (5149645)  
    UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver, CA) Cellulose binding fusion proteins for immobilization and purification of polypeptides (5137819)  
    UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver, CA) DNA construct for enhancing the efficiency of transcription (5164316)  
    UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH (Guelph, CA) Serum-free, cell-free vaccine effective against pneumonic pasteurellosis in cattle (5165924)  
    UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN (Saskatoon, CA) Bovine herpesvirus type 1 polypeptides and vaccines (5151267)  
    UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM (Nottingham, UK) Utilization of plant protoplasts (5126263)  
    UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO (Waterloo, CA) Control of senescence in fruits, vegetables and flowers (5087417)  
    UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL, INC. (Calgary, CA) Method for isolating and purifying transferrin and lactoferrin receptor proteins and vaccines containing the same (5141743)  
    YISSUM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT CO., HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM (Jerusalem, IL) Nematicidal strain of pseudomonas and its use as a biocontrol agent (5089263)  
    YISSUM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT CO., HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM (Jerusalem, IL) Method and kit for testing for the presence of catalase in milk (5091306)  
    YISSUM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT CO., HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM (Jerusalem, IL) Newcastle disease virus vaccine and method for the application thereof (5152981)  
1993 25
    BRITISH COLUMBIA RESEARCH CORP. (Vancouver, CA) Process for the production, desiccation and germination of conifer somatic embryos (5183757)  
    CENTRAAL DIERGENEESKUNDIG INST. (Lelystad, NL) Vaccine suitable for prophylaxis and control, respectively, of the pig disease caused by Haemophilus pleuropneumoniae and a method for obtaining extracellular proteinaceous material of Haemophilus pleuropneumoniae for use in such vaccines (5254340)  
    COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORG. (CSIRO) (Canberra, AU) Bidirectional pox virus promoter element (5258294)  
    COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORG. (CSIRO) (Canberra, AU) Polypetides, antigens or vaccines protective against babesiosis (5273884)  
    DEVELOPMENT CENTER FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY (Taipei, TW) Encapsulated structure for plant initiate material (5250082)  
    INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY (Heraklion, GR) Process for isolating and preparing purified chitin deacetylase (5219749)  
    INTERNATIONAL LAB. FOR RESEARCH ON ANIMAL DISEASES (Nairobi, KE) Vaccines for the protection of animals against theileria infection (5273744)  
    JAPAN R&D ASSOC. FOR IMPROVEMENT OF ENZYME FUNCTION IN FOOD IND. (Tokyo, JP) Alkaline protease, alkaline protease gene, recombinant DNA, DNA fragment for the expression of gene, and process for the production of alkaline protease (5254470)  
    JULICH FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM GMBH (Julich, DE); DEGUSSA AG (Frankfurt, DE) Peptide amidase and the use thereof (5190875)  
    KOREA ADVANCED INST. OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, KR) Biosensor containing immobilized Zymomonas mobilis cells for measuring glucose, fructose and sucrose (5177012)  
    MAX-PLANCK INSTITUT (Munich, DE) Methods and vectors for selectively cloning exons (5252475)  
    MAX-PLANCK INSTITUT (Munich, DE) Process for producing proteins using gram negative host cells (5268270)  
    MCGILL UNIVERSITY (Montreal, CA) Genes which participate in .beta.-glucan assembly and use thereof (5194600)  
    MCGILL UNIVERSITY (Montreal, CA) Fungal herbicides (5212086)  
    MCGILL UNIVERSITY (Montreal, CA) Immortalized bovine mannary epithelial cell line (5227301)  
    MCGILL UNIVERSITY (Montreal, CA) Composition for biocontrol of fireweed (5244659)  
    PITMAN-MOORE, INC. (Mundelein, IL US); UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE (Melbourne, AU); NEW ZEALAND MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES (Wellington, NZ) Stable forms of antigenic Taenia ovis polypeptides (5192538)  
    QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY (Kingston, CA) Sodium tolerance genes derived from schizosaccharomyces pombe (5272085)  
    UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver, CA) DNA construct for enhancing the efficiency of transcription (5196525)  
    UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver, CA) Cellulose binding fusion proteins having a substrate binding region of cellulase (5202247)  
    UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH (Guelph, CA) Process to induce desiccation tolerance in somatic embryos (5238835)  
    UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER (Leicester, UK) Method for culturing of cells on a membrane (5264344)  
    UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN (Saskatoon, CA); CIBA-GEIGY AG (Ardsley, NY US) Gamma-iterferon-leukotoxin gene fusions and uses thereof (5273889)  
    VEPEX CONTRACTOR LTD. (Budapest, HU); MTA SZEGEDI BIOLOGIAI KOZPONTJA (Odesszai, HU) Process for the preparation of oligo- and polydeoxyribonucleotides (5183748)  
    YISSUM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT CO., HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM (Jerusalem, IL) Ampelomyces quisqualis AQ10, CNCM I-807, for biological control of powdery mildew (5190754)  
1994 19
    COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORG. (CSIRO) (Canberra, AU) Endonucleases (5298612)  
    COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORG. (CSIRO) (Canberra, AU) Pox virus vaccine (5368855)  
    COOPERS ANIMAL HEALTH LTD. (Upper Hutt, NZ); UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE (Melbourne, AU); NEW ZEALAND MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES (Wellington, NZ) Antigenic polypeptides of Taenia ovis (5348740)  
    EUROPAISCHES LABORATORIUM FUR MOLEKULARBIOLOGIE (EMBL) (Heidelberg, DE) Synthetic catalytic oligonucleotide structures (5334711)  
    FRANCE COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE (Paris, FR); SOCIETE USSI (Saint Quentin Yvelines, FR) Process for the selective production of polyunsaturated fatty acids from a culture of microalgae of the porphyridium cruentum (5338673)  
    HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES BIOLOGIC RESEARCH CENTER (Szeged, HU) Mammalian artificial chromosomes (5288625)  
    INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY (Heraklion, GR) Eukaryotic transposable element (5348874)  
    JULICH FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM GMBH (Julich, DE); DEGUSSA AG (Frankfurt, DE) Peptide amidase and the use thereof (5369016)  
    KAO CORP. (Tokyo, JP); TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL COLLEGE (Tokyo, JP) Bed material for cell culture (5284766)  
    PITMAN-MOORE, INC. (Mundelein, IL US); UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE (Melbourne, AU); NEW ZEALAND MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES (Wellington, NZ) Stable forms of antigenic Taenia ovis polypeptides (5366728)  
    ROYAL MELBOURNE INST. OF TECHNOLOGY LTD. (Melbourne, AU) Swine dysentery vaccine (5281416)  
    UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA (Edmonton, CA) Method for isolating and purifying transferrin and lactoferrin receptor proteins from bacteria and the preparation of vaccines containing the same (5292869)  
    UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL (Bristol , UK); PUBLIC HEALTH LAB. SERVICE BOARD (London, UK) Recombinant modified thermostable NAD-dependent dehydrogenases and process for their production (5354676)  
    UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver, CA) Method of preparing a B-1,4 glycan matrix containing a bound fusion protein (5340731)  
    UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH (Guelph, CA); UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO (Toronto, CA) Diagnosis for porcine malignant hyperthermia (5358649)  
    UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN (Saskatoon, CA) Assembled viral particles and their use in a vaccine to rotaviral disease (5298244)  
    UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE (Knoxville, TN US); MCMASTER UNIVERSITY (Hamilton, CA) Method for delivering nucleic acids into cells (5283185)  
    VETERINARY INFECTIOUS DISEASE ORG. (Saskatoon, CA) DNA encoding bovine coronavirus polypeptides E2 and E3 (5369026)  
    YISSUM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT CO., HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM (Jerusalem, IL) DNA encoding spiroplasma sp. dna methylase (5296371)  
1995 24
    ALBERTA RESEARCH COUNCIL (Edmonton, CA); UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA (Fairbanks, AK US) Cell culture bioreactor (5443985)  
    AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY (Canberra, AU) Sex determination in cattle, sheep and goats using y-chromosome polynucleotides (5418133)  
    CAMBIA BIOSYSTEMS, L.L.C. (Canberra, AU) Host cells transformed with the E. coli glucoronide permease gene (5432081)  
    CARLSBERG A/S (Copenhagen, DK); DDR AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN (Berlin, DE) Thermostable (1,3-1,4)-.beta.-glucanase (5470725)  
    DEVELOPMENT CENTER FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY (Taipei, TW) Controlling vitrification of plants using water absorbent polymer (5389542)  
    GESELLSCHAFT FUR BIOTECHNOLOGISCHE FORSCHUNG MBH (Braunschweig, DE) Process to combat harmful organisms originating in seeds or soil by means of seed treatment (5409509)  
    INST. FUR GENBIOLOGISCHE (Berlin, DE) Potato tuber specific transcriptional regulation (5436393)  
    INST. OF PROTEIN RESEARCH (Moscow, RU) Method of preparing polypeptides in cell-free translation system (5478730)  
    LISTER INST. OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE (Middlesex, UK) Method of characterizing genomic DNA by reference to a genetic variable (5413908)  
    MAX-PLANCK INSTITUT (Munich, DE) Wound-stimulated DNA-sequence from solanum tuberosum and its use (5428146)  
    RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN (Leiden, NL); Individual inventor(s) Process for the incorporation of foreign DNA into the genome of dicotyledonous plants (5464763)  
    SOLVAY ENZYMES GMBH AND CO. KG. (Neinburg, DE); GESELLSCHAFT FUR BIOTECHNOLOGISCHE FORSCHUNG MBH (Braunschweig, DE) Stabilized enzymes and process for preparing them (5453372)  
    THE HIRAOKA ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE LAB. (Saitama, JP) Moss seedling and method of producing dense moss mat therefrom (5476523)  
    UNIVERIDAD NACIONAL AUTONOMA DE MEXICO (Distrito Federal, MX) Process to obtain extra-cellular recombinant products using Xanthomonas campestris pv campestris as host (5443980)  
    UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID (Madrid, ES) Antipathogenic peptides and compositions containing the same (5446127)  
    UNIVERSITE LAVAL (Montreal, CA) Homing endonuclease which originates from chlamydomonas eugametos and recognizes and cleaves a 15, 17 or 19 degenerate double stranded nucleotide sequence (5420032)  
    UNIVERSITE LAVAL (Montreal, CA) DNA probes for the detection of arbuscular endomycorrhizal fungi (5434048)  
    UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH (Guelph, CA) Process for the production of vaccine for prevention of Pasteurella haemolytica pneumonia in bovine (5378615)  
    UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH (Guelph, CA) Hyperproduction of shoots during a vitro regeneration of plant (5477000)  
    UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN (Saskatoon, CA) Vaccines for Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae (5417971)  
    UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN (Saskatoon, CA) Enhanced immunogenicity using leukotoxin chimeras (5422110)  
    UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN (Saskatoon, CA) Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae outer membrane lipoprotein A and uses thereof (5441736)  
    UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN (Saskatoon, CA) Desiccated conifer somatic embryos (5464769)  
    UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN (Saskatoon, CA) Pasteurella haemolytica leukotoxin compositions and uses thereof (5476657)  
1996 24
    BABRAHAM INSTITUTE (Cambridge, UK); MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LTD. (London, UK) Production of antibodies from transgenic animals (5545807)  
    BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY (Ludwigshafen, GE); RUTGERS UNIVERSITY (New Brunswick, NJ US) Method of using an elicitor to increase production of metabolites in biological cells (5552307)  
    BIOTECH AUSTRALIA PTY. LTD. AND CSIRO (Roseville, AU); COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORG. (CSIRO) (Canberra, AU) Haemonchus contortus vaccine (5525508)  
    COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORG. (CSIRO) (Canberra, AU) DNA sequences encoding at least part of the tomato enzyme endopolygalacturonase PG1 .beta.-subunit (5585542)  
    HELSINKI UNIVERSITY (Helsinki, FI) Virus-resistant transgenic plants (5576202)  
    HSC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT LIMITED PARTNERSHIP (Toronto, CA); SEABRIGHT CORPORATION (St. John's, CA) Transgenic salmonid fish expressing exogenous salmonid growth hormone (5545808)  
    INST. FUR GENBIOLOGISCHE (Berlin, DE) Plasmids for the production of transgenic plants that are modified in habit and yield (5492820)  
    INST. FUR GENBIOLOGISCHE (Berlin, DE) Expression cassette and plasmids for a guard cell specific expression and their use for the introduction of transgenic plant cells and plants (5538879)  
    INST. MOLEKULYARNOI BIOLOGII IMENI V.A. (Moscow, RU) Methods of DNA sequencing by hybridization based on optimizing concentration of matrix-bound oligonucleotide and device for carrying out same (5552270)  
    INSTITUT MERIEUX (Lyon, FR); UNIVERSITE JOSEPH FOURIER (Grenoble, FR) Process for the production of a viable cell culture infected by a multiple sclerosis-associated virus (5585262)  
    INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY (Heraklion, GR) DNA encoding chitin deacetylase (5525502)  
    JAPAN TOBACCO INC. (Tokyo, JP); RICE BREEDING RESEARCH LAB. (Sendai, JP) Method for decreasing seed storage proteins and for transforming plants (5516668)  
    NATIONAL FEDERATION OF AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVE ASSOC. (Tokyo, JP) Cryopreserving bovine embryos with a composition comprising 4% ethylen E glycol, 4% propanediol, and bovine albumin having a lipid content of 2.5 ug or more (5504002)  
    PLANT GENETIC SYSTEMS (Ghent, BE); EMBRAPA (Brasilia, BR) Process for the production of transgenic plants with increased nutritional value via the expression of modified 2S storage albumins (5589615)  
    QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY (Kingston, CA); ATOMIC ENERGY OF CANADA LTD. (Ottawa, CA) Indexing linkers (5508169)  
    SAGAMI CHEMICAL RESEARCH CENTER (Tokyo, JP); HOLLAND SWEETNER COMPANY V.O.F. (Maastricht, NL) Protease (5496710)  
    UNIVERSITE DE MONTREAL (Montreal, CA) Aseptic in vitro endomycorrhizal spore mass production (5554530)  
    UNIVERSITY DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA (Santiago, ES) Cell culture plate with a system for lateral diffusion of molecules through a barrier membrane (5578490)  
    UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver, CA) Bacterial surface protein expression (5500353)  
    UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN (Saskatoon, CA) Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae transferrin binding proteins and uses thereof (5521072)  
    UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN (Saskatoon, CA) Haemophilus somnus outer membrane protein extract enriched with iron-regulated proteins (5534256)  
    UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN (Saskatoon, CA) Nucleotide sequences encoding recombinant bovine herpesvirus type-1 GI, GIII and GIV polypeptides (5585264)  
    UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE (Hertfordshire, UK); RUBBER RESEARCH INST. OF MALAYSIA (Kuala Lumpur, SG) Method for the production of proteins in plant fluids (5580768)  
    WELLCOME FOUNDATION LTD. (London, UK); ROYAL SOCIETY (London, UK); LISTER INST. OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE (Middlesex, UK); UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE (Glasgow, UK) Vaccines comprising attenuated salmonella having mutations in the ompr genes (5527529)  
1997 38
    AJINOMOTO CO. INC. (Tokyo, JP); JAPANESE FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH (Tokyo, JP) Gene coded for interleukin-2 polypeptide, recombinant DNA carrying the said gene, a living cell line possessing the recombinant DNA, and method for producing interleukin-2 using the said cell (5620868)  
    CAMBIA BIOSYSTEMS, L.L.C. (Canberra, AU) .beta.-glucuronidase and glucuronide permease gene system (5599670)  
    COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORG. (CSIRO) (Canberra, AU) Diagnosis of Mycobacterium bovis infection (5693500)  
    COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE FOR INDUSTRIAL PLANT BIOPOLYMERS (Parkville, AU) Plant arabinogalactan protein (AGP) genes (5646029)  
    COOPERS ANIMAL HEALTH LTD. (Upper Hutt, NZ); UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE (Melbourne, AU); NEW ZEALAND MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES (Wellington, NZ) Antigenic polypeptides of Taenia ovis (5599692)  
    COOPERS ANIMAL HEALTH LTD. (Upper Hutt, NZ); UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE (Melbourne, AU); NEW ZEALAND MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES (Wellington, NZ) Vaccines comprising antigenic polypeptides of Taenia ovis (5618542)  
    HOWARD FLOREY INSTITUTE (Victoria, AU) Hybridization histochemistry method for determining the presence and location in animal or plant tissue of RNA (5597692)  
    INST. FUR GENBIOLOGISCHE (Berlin, DE) DNA sequences with oligosaccharide transporter, plasmids, bacteria and plants containing a transporter as well as a process for the preparation and transformation of yeast strains for identification of the transporter (5608146)  
    ISIS INNOVATION LTD. (Oxford, UK) Apparatus and method for analyzing polynucleotide sequences and method of generating oligonucleotide arrays (5700637)  
    ISRAEL MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY AND TRADE (Jerusalem, IL); YISSUM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT CO., HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM (Jerusalem, IL) Supported polyionic hydrogels containing biologically active material (5648252)  
    ITALY MINISTERO DELL' UNIVERSITA' E RICERCA SCIENTIFICA E TECNOLOGICA (Rome, IT) Process for producing 7.beta.-(4-carboxybutanamido)-cephalosporanic acid acylase ("GA") enzyme (5612210)  
    KANAGAWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION (Kanagawa, JP); SAGAMI CHEMICAL RESEARCH CENTER (Tokyo, JP) Process for producing cDNAs with complete length, process for producing intermediates thereof and process for producing vectors containing cDNAs with complete lengths (5597713)  
    MAX-PLANCK INSTITUT (Munich, DE) Method of producing pathogen-resistant plants (5633442)  
    MAX-PLANCK INSTITUT (Munich, DE) Modified ribozymes (5672695)  
    MAX-PLANCK INSTITUT (Munich, DE) Transgenic pathogen-resistant plant (5689045)  
    MAX-PLANCK INSTITUT (Munich, DE) Expression cassette for antisense expression of ribozyme (5695992)  
    MOGEN INTERNATIONAL N.V. (Leiden, NL); RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN (Leiden, NL) Fungal resistant plants, process for obtaining fungal resistant plants and recombinant polynucleotides for use therein (5670706)  
    OSAKA UNIVERSITY (Osaka, JP) Recombinant Marek's disease virus and vaccine (5650153)  
    PLANT GENETIC SYSTEMS (Ghent, BE); EMBRAPA (Brasilia, BR) Seed-specific promoter region (5623067)  
    SAGAMI CHEMICAL RESEARCH CENTER (Tokyo, JP) Cloning vector plasmid vector-primer derived therefrom and preparation method of the same (5624826)  
    STICHTING CENTRAAL DIERGENEESKUNDIG INST. (Ede, NL) Causative agent of the mystery swine disease, vaccine compositions and diagnostic kits (5620691)  
    STICHTING CENTRAAL DIERGENEESKUNDIG INST. (Ede, NL) Bovine herpesvirus type 1 deletion mutants and vaccines (5676951)  
    STICHTING VOOR DE TECHNISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN (Utrecht, NL) Mutant pseudorabies virus, and vaccines containing the same (5695765)  
    UNIVERSITE DE MONTREAL (Montreal, CA) Oligonucleotide probe and primers specific to bovine or porcine male genomic DNA (5596089)  
    UNIVERSITE DE MONTREAL (Montreal, CA) Endochitinase gene induced by osmotic stress and abscisic acid isolated from the wild tomato Lycopersicon chilense Dun (5656474)  
    UNIVERSITE DE MONTREAL (Montreal, CA); MASSACHUSETTS INST. OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, MA US) Nucleozymes (5652094)  
    UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver, CA) Characterization and structure of an endodglucanase gene of Cellulomonas fimi (5643791)  
    UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY (Calgary, CA) Y-chromosome specific polynucleotide probes for prenatal sexing (5663048)  
    UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW (Glasgow, UK); EQUINE VIROLOGY RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Suffolk, UK) DNA encoding the EHV-4 gH or gC glycoprotein (5674735)  
    UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH (Guelph, CA) Process for producing seeds capable of forming F.sub.1 hybrid plants utilizing self-incompatibility (5628145)  
    UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND (College Park, MD US); UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA (Victoria, CA) Compounds comprising gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) and methods for controlling reproduction in fish (5643877)  
    UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE (Melbourne, AU); IMMULOGIC PHARMACEUTICAL CORPORATION (Waltham, MA US) DNA encoding allergenic proteins and peptides from Johnson grass pollen (5691167)  
    UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN (Saskatoon, CA); CIBA-GEIGY AG (Ardsley, NY US) Chimeric protein comprising an RTX-family cytotoxin and interferon-2 or interferon (5594107)  
    UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (University Park, CA US); UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA (Edmonton, CA) Methods for identifying and isolating variant T4 DNA polymerases (5660980)  
    UNIVERSITY OF HULL (Hull, UK) Improvements in or relating to DNA cloning techniques and products for use therewith (5604122)  
    UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA (Victoria, CA) DNA encoding two fish neuropeptides (5695954)  
    VETERINARY INFECTIOUS DISEASE ORG. (Saskatoon, CA) Recombinant bovine coronavirus E2 and E3 polypeptides and vaccines (5672350)  
    YISSUM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT CO., HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM (Jerusalem, IL); UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, CA US) Methods of use of cellulose binding domain proteins (5670623)  
1998 66
    AGRIGENETICS, INC. (San Diego, CA US); COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORG. (CSIRO) (Canberra, AU) Ocs-element (5710267)  
    AGRIGENETICS, INC. (San Diego, CA US); COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORG. (CSIRO) (Canberra, AU) OCS element (5837849)  
    AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY (Canberra, AU) Control of plant cell proliferation and growth (5750862)  
    BIO POLYMERS PTY. LTD. (Melbourne, AU); COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORG. (CSIRO) (Canberra, AU) Industrial pharmaceutical and cosmetics applications for cultured plant cell gums (5747297)  
    BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING RESEARCH INST. (Suita, JP) CPC gene for regulating initiation of root hair formation for arabidopsis (thaliana) and transgenic (arabidopsis), plant overexpressing the CPC gene (5831060)  
    BIOTECH AUSTRALIA PTY. LTD. AND CSIRO (Roseville, AU); COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORG. (CSIRO) (Canberra, AU) Nematode vaccine (5734035)  
    BIOTECH AUSTRALIA PTY. LTD. AND CSIRO (Roseville, AU); COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORG. (CSIRO) (Canberra, AU) Vaccines against animal parasitic nematodes (5843706)  
    BIOTEKNOLOGISK INSTITUT (Kolding, DK); CHR. HANSEN A/S (Horsholm, DK) Recombinant lactic acid bacterium containing an inserted promoter and method of constructing same (5837509)  
    COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORG. (CSIRO) (Canberra, AU) Diagnosis of Mycobacterium bovis infection (5707819)  
    COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORG. (CSIRO) (Canberra, AU) Recombinant entomopoxvirus (5762924)  
    COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORG. (CSIRO) (Canberra, AU) DNA molecules encoding inducible plant promoters and tomato ADH2 enzyme (5821398)  
    COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORG. (CSIRO) (Canberra, AU) Enzyme based bioremediation (5843758)  
    COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE FOR INDUSTRIAL PLANT BIOPOLYMERS (Parkville, AU) Plant arabinogalactan protein (AGP) genes (5830747)  
    DESERT BLOOM FOUNDATION (Perth, UK) Protective enclosures for seeds (5799439)  
    DEVELOPMENT CENTER FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY (Taipei, TW) Nucleotide sequence of two circular SSDNA associated with banana bunchy top virus and method for detection of banana bunchy top virus (5846705)  
    EBERHARD-KARLS-UNIVERSITAT TUBINGEN (Tubingen, DE) Antibody 103B2 (5763274)  
    FOOD INDUSTRY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INST. (Hsin Chu, TW) Screening and characterization of glutaryl-7-aminocephalosporanic acid acylase (5766871)  
    FUNDACACO OSWALDO CRUZ-FIOCRUZ (Rio de Janeiro, BR) Vaccine against helminth infection comprising Sm-14 fatty acid binding protein of Schistosoma mansoni (5730984)  
    GESELLSCHAFT FUR BIOTECHNOLOGISCHE FORSCHUNG MBH (Braunschweig, DE) Process for the production of primers and template bank therefor (5763227)  
    GLAXO WELLCOME INC. (Research Triangle Park, NC US); ROYAL SOCIETY (London, UK); LISTER INST. OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE (Middlesex, UK); UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE (Glasgow, UK) Live vaccines (5851519)  
    HELSINKI UNIVERSITY (Helsinki, FI) Use of lipids to improve the polymerse chain reaction (5792612)  
    HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES BIOLOGIC RESEARCH CENTER (Szeged, HU) Method of producing a cell carrying an excess of mammalian centromeres (5712134)  
    Individual inventor(s); MCGILL UNIVERSITY (Montreal, CA) Large scale production of human or animal proteins using plant bioreactors (5723755)  
    INST. FUR GENBIOLOGISCHE (Berlin, DE) DNA sequences and plasmids for the preparation of plants with changed sucrose concentration (5767365)  
    ISIS INNOVATION LTD. (Oxford, UK) Process for amplifying nucleic acid (5824515)  
    ITALY MINISTERO DELL' UNIVERSITA' E RICERCA SCIENTIFICA E TECNOLOGICA (Rome, IT) Process for producing 7B-(4-carboxybutanamido)-cephalosporanic acid acylase ("GA") enzyme (5801048)  
    JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INST. (Tokyo, JP) Method of producing intergeneric or interspecific hybrids by ion beam irradiation (5735078)  
    JAPAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY (Ibaraki-ken, JP); HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY (Miyazaki, JP) Method of introducing exogenous genes into cultured cells or fertilized eggs (5834269)  
    JULICH FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM GMBH (Julich, DE) Purified saccharose-synthase, process for its production and its use (5750389)  
    KOREA ADVANCED INST. OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, KR) Method for immobilization of whole microbial cells in calcium alginate capsules (5766907)  
    LAB. OF MOLECULAR BIOPHOTONICS (Shizuoka, JP) Method for the amplification of a base sequence (5770408)  
    MAX-PLANCK INSTITUT (Munich, DE) Fungus-responsive chimaeric gene (5723760)  
    MAX-PLANCK INSTITUT (Munich, DE) Fungus-responsive chimaeric gene (5750874)  
    MAX-PLANCK INSTITUT (Munich, DE) Process for analyzing length polymorphisms in DNA regions (5766847)  
    MAX-PLANCK INSTITUT (Munich, DE) Method for direct identification of few nucleic acid strands (5807677)  
    MAX-PLANCK INSTITUT (Munich, DE) Modified ribozymes (5817635)  
    MAX-PLANCK INSTITUT (Munich, DE) Agent for stimulating animal cell division (