Article: Geron Announces Notice of Lawsuit.

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MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BW HealthWire)--Aug. 13, 2001

Geron Corporation (Nasdaq:GERN) announced today that it received a letter from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation ("WARF") advising Geron that WARF has filed a lawsuit seeking a declaratory judgment against Geron with respect to Geron's option to negotiate certain exclusive rights in addition to those previously licensed from WARF.

Geron has an exclusive license from WARF for the human embryonic stem cell technology developed by Dr. James Thomson of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Geron funded Dr. Thomson's research which resulted in the ...

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