Allele Biotech Received Broader US Patent in RNAi

The US Patent and Trademark Office today issued patent 7,422,896 entitled "Compositions for DNA mediated gene silencing" to Allele Biotech. In addition to what was covered in an earlier patent, 7,294,504, issued to Allele Biotech last November, the current patent described more ways of using RNA polymerase III and its promoters to express siRNA or shRNA in human or other mammalian systems.

The details can be read here.