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Interesting feature, but the line 'The researchers believe that in time production can be scaled up to produce medicines in commercial quantities' says a lot - I'll guess it's another of these ideas that needs ten years and a few million quid if we are to see it again. I wonder if it is feather brained, or could it be absorbed by a shell company?

That article is 3 years old, and that means there has been the chance for 3 years of discussions to have been held around it. Interesting.

You're right - it was a sort of 'speak now or forever hold your peace' thing as I remember. The patent was granted if there were no objections in the 28 days following.

Worth remembering what happened when they started SCIB1 in a dose escalation safety trial. That took off very quickly - ask almost all of the stage 3 and 4 melanoma patients involved...it was what? 6 years ago..?

Well worth highlighting again Inanaco. Post rec - needs reading and understanding by a few here.

We seem to have the same conversation going round every time the interims come out. The only thing we didn't have this year was several weeks in January of 'the interims are late, there must be something wrong, they will all go to prison and the earth will explode if the interims aren't out by midday.' As C7 says, it is what it is and time will tell. Either buy. sell or hold, entirely as you see the present and perceive the future. There is enough debate to fill a large landfill site on here, some if it very useful and some less so.

As an excellent illustration of that quote, one only has to listen to LD talking about moditope and immunobody, and cancer in general, and it is abundantly clear that she knows her subject inside out AND can explain it clearly in layman's terms. She doesn't just post a load of links and say 'read these because it's a bit complicated.'

A summary please nomlungu. Something relatively brief but coherent maybe? That last post is singularly useless if you don't mind me saying so.

I'll second Wildforce's question - I find your links hard to link specifically to Scancell, so given that you must have an understanding of any direct relevance to post in the first place, then a reasonable précy would be useful.

Maybe they think you're a shape-shifter rather than a devil.

This has always been the appeal of Moditope - the fact it is apparently so much part of the natural processes of the body, rather than an invasive 'outsider' sent in to kill and then withdraw. Hence why the mice won't die, and presumably why the immune memory is set up. Exactly why I'm also in scancell and think they will be going places too. The sp at the moment is frustrating but let's see what develops.

Mind you, with the flood problems I suppose it makes sense to live in a caravan to make a quick getaway if needed.

I knew it was famous for something other than the landfill.

From Wikipedia about Gunthorpe - 'There is a large motorhome and caravan centre called Lowdhams, built on the former Tarmac landfill site.' Seems to be a recurring caravan theme among the glums here.

Indeed. Nomlungu stop talking bolivars.

That sums it up exactly Konar.

I was trying to make a simple and fairly obvious point that the grant of a patent will normally add little or nothing to the sp because there is a sort of background assumption it will be granted, provided it is actually novel, original etc etc. From the outset it is hoped or assumed this will happen in any sensible business, if a patent is required, but try having a patent declined and see what that does to the sp! So if the application is suitably innovative (and any decent lawyer with patent experience will advise on the likelihood before the initial application is made I would imagine) then it should, in due course, get granted. It is never a given, but as a cornerstone to any business development it is generally assumed that it should get there in the end. Also in the case of Scancell I trust LD to have sufficient knowledge of her field that she wouldn't put in a patent that infringed or was not novel. It was a fairly low level, average sort of observation - I didn't realise it would involve being dragged to the headmaster's study, but some things never change.

A lot of hopes get raised on patent RNSs but they usually have little effect, simply because they are an essential part of moving forward. I would suggest they are effectively priced in more or less from the start.

Your presence is indeed a blessing Gunthorpe. You are a messianic bonus.

Gunthorpe is a small, poor and boggy village in Lincolnshire. It amounts to little.