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Article: Sparta Pharmaceuticals Inc. Announces Patent Approval from the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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- October 17, 1997
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HORSHAM, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 17, 1997--Sparta Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: SPTA, SPTAU, SPTAW, SPTAZ AND SPTAL) announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted United States Patent No. 5,674,708 submitted by Dr. Harvey Rubin and colleagues of The University of Pennsylvania (Penn).
The patent is entitled, "a-1-Antichymotrypsin Analogues Having Elastase Inhibitory Activity." This is the seventh United States patent to be granted through Sparta's collaboration with Penn.
Through a Sparta-funded grant, Rubin, who is a scientific advisor to the company, has created a new class of recombinant modified human proteins ...