I love the comparison :-) 

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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Cremer
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 1:45 AM
To: Morken, Timothy; Kim Donadio; Patsy Ruegg
Cc: <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [Histonet] ER, Clone SP1

That drives me up the wall as well. How can you possibly patent something that 
has been made by nature, and in theory is present in every single human being 
(I'm talking about any random gene here)? That would be like Newton patenting 
gravity and then going around and charging everyone a licensing fee for staying 
on earth instead of floating off in space, or claiming every apple that has 
fallen off a tree.
It's ridiculous!
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[[email protected]] namens Morken, Timothy 
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Verzonden: vrijdag 13 juli 2012 0:05
To: Kim Donadio; Patsy Ruegg
Cc: <[email protected]>
Onderwerp: RE: [Histonet] ER, Clone SP1

It is most likely licensing issues between companies. A company may carry it 
under license from another company but the terms change and the licensee either 
loses the license (the other company won't license it), can't afford it or 
other issues.

For example, when I worked in the antibody industry  we had several antibodies 
for a certain target but another company got a patent on the target and all 
antibodies to the target (still not sure why that is possible!). They finally 
decided to enforce their patent and wanted a licensing fee that was higher than 
our annual sales of all the antibodies put together. Obviously not a viable 
deal for our company.

Tim Morken

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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kim Donadio
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 2:55 PM
To: Patsy Ruegg
Cc: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Histonet] ER, Clone SP1

I'm curious as to why all if a sudden some of these can be sold else where and 
not in the USA. Is it a FDA issue?

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On Jul 12, 2012, at 5:45 PM, "Patsy Ruegg" <[email protected]> wrote:

>> From what I understand the SP1 Er clone has also been discontinued in 
>> USA by
> Leica/Novacastra, I am told it is still being sold by Leica in Europe?
> Must be another licensing issue because some are soooo greedy.  I knew 
> this was going to happen and stock piled some of the ER SP1, but it 
> won't last forever.
>
> Patsy Ruegg, HT(ASCP)QIHC
> Ruegg Consulting
> 40864 Arkansas Ave
> Bennett, CO 80102
> Phone: 303-644-4538
> Fax: 720-859-4110
> [email protected]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Leigh 
> York
> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 1:06 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Histonet] ER, Clone SP1
>
> Dako is going to discontinue the ER , SP1 clone.  We really want to 
> use the
> SP1 clone, but do not want to use an ASR.  We can get it from Ventana 
> only we are told.  Can anyone elaborate on how they are handling this 
> in their lab or if they have switched to an ASR?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Leigh York
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