Patents by Inventor Alvaro L. Gaitan

Alvaro L. Gaitan 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).

  • Constitutive ?-Tubulin promoter from coffee plants and uses thereof
    Patent number: 6903247
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the isolation and characterization of a constitutive ?-tubulin promoter from a coffee plant. The isolated promoter of the present invention is capable of inducing the expression of a protein encoded by a DNA molecule that is operably linked to the promoter in a DNA construct. The present invention also relates to DNA constructs expression systems, host cells, and transgenic plants and plant seeds containing the promoter of the invention. The present invention also relates to a method of making a transgenic plant and a method of directing protein expression in plants that involve transforming a plant cell with a DNA construct containing the promoter of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2005
    Assignee: Cornell Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Herbert S. Aldwinckle, Alvaro L. Gaitan
  • Constitutive and inducible promoters from coffee plants
    Publication number: 20030163837
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the isolation of two DNA promoters from a coffee plant. The isolated promoters, one inducible and one constitutive, are capable of inducing the expression of a second DNA operably linked to the promoter. The present invention also relates to host cells, expression systems and transgenic plants containing the promoters of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2002
    Publication date: August 28, 2003
    Inventors: Herbert S. Aldwinckle, Alvaro L. Gaitan
  • Constitutive and inducible promoters from coffee plants
    Patent number: 6441273
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the isolation of two DNA promoters from a coffee plant. The isolated promoters, one inducible and one constitutive, are capable of inducing the expression of a second DNA operably linked to the promoter. The present invention also relates to host cells, expression systems and transgenic plants containing the promoters of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignee: Cornell Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Herbert S. Aldwinckle, Alvaro L. Gaitan