On September 9, 2019, KEI submitted a second request to the NIH that it investigate an apparent failure to disclose federal funding in patents in adeno-associated viral (AAV) gene therapies assigned to the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn).… Continue Reading
Update: In a letter dated March 28, 2018, Robert Firestone wrote to the NIH on behalf of Penn, stating that the NIH grants were infrastructure grants that did not give the NIH rights in the inventions. 2018-03-28-Penn-Response-juxtapid-Rader On March 19,… Continue Reading
On October 17, 2017, KEI sent a letter to the NIH regarding the failure of the University of Pennsylvania to disclose federal funding of five patented inventions for CAR T.
Today (October 18, 2017), we received this statement from the University:
“We have reviewed the letter and have confirmed that each of these patents was reported to the government as having NIH funding.