Patents by Inventor Steven Spiker

Steven Spiker has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Matrix attachment regions
    Publication number: 20020073448
    Abstract: Matrix attachment regions isolated from a higher plants, and DNA constructs and vectors containing such matrix attachment regions, are described. A method of identifying matrix attachment regions is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2001
    Publication date: June 13, 2002
    Inventors: Susan Michalowski, Steven Spiker
  • Matrix attachment regions
    Patent number: 6245974
    Abstract: Matrix attachment regions isolated from a higher plants, and DNA constructs and vectors containing such matrix attachment regions, are described. A method of identifying matrix attachment regions is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2001
    Assignee: North Carolina State University
    Inventors: Susan Michalowski, Steven Spiker
  • Plant nuclear scaffold attachment region and method for increasing gene expression in transgenic cells
    Patent number: 5773695
    Abstract: A nuclear scaffold attachment region isolated from a tobacco gene, and a method of making recombinant cells having increased levels of expression of foreign genes therein, are described. The method comprises transforming the cell with a DNA construct comprising in the 5' to 3' direction, a transcription initiation region, a structural gene positioned downstream from the transcription initiation region and operatively associated therewith, and a scaffold attachment region of the nucleotide sequence provided herein, positioned either 5' to the transcription initiation region or 3' to the structural gene. DNA constructs and vectors employed in carrying out the foregoing method are also discussed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1998
    Assignee: North Carolina State University
    Inventors: William F. Thompson, Gerald Hall, Jr., Steven Spiker, George C. Allen