A researcher is suing the University of Hawaii over rights to a technique that introduces foreign genes into living organisms. Anthony Perry, who has been working with Ryuzo Yanagimachi's renowned mouse-cloning team at Hawaii, is suing the university over the new transgenic technique which could have lucrative applications in breading transgenic mammals for the production of human substances for therapy.
In a lawsuit filed last month, Perry claims that the university licensed the technique to a biotechnology company without his consent. But Hawaii's general counsel, Walter Kirimitsu, says that the university owns exclusive patent rights and title to the technology and that it was licensed properly. The university will respond to the lawsuit in court next week and a judge will subsequently consider the legal arguments.
The technique at the centre of the dispute is called 'mammalian transgenesis by intracytoplasmic sperm injection', or ICSI transgenesis. It was reported in a paper in the May issue of the journal Science by the Yanagimachi team (known as 'Team Yana') with Perry as the lead author.
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