Promega Taq vs. Perkin-Elmer Taq

[Patricia Foster]

How very interesting.  Anyone know who these folks are?

Also, anyone know when the patent(s) expires?

Pat


Patricia L. Foster
Boston University School of Medicine
Boston, MA USA
pfoster at bu.edu



an125249 at anon.penet.fi wrote:


: The royalties paid by you to those b......s are as follows:

: Initial license fee to sell Taq or a.n.other enzyme for PCR

: US$100,000  yes one hundred thousand US dollars

: Royalty per unit of enzyme US$0.16 ie forty US dollars per 250u

: Remember to thank Roche for making legal PCR only for the rich. 


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