Patents by Inventor Brigitte Lemercier

Brigitte Lemercier 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).

  • Publication number: 20080166718
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for determining the quantitative and qualitative profile of the repertoire of a given type of an immunoglobulin (Ig) heavy chain expressed by a B lymphocyte population present in a tissue sample, and kits and uses thereof. It also provides a set of VH forward primers associated with a CH reverse primer, which are respectively capable of specifically hybridizing in stringent conditions with the nucleic acids encoding the variable segments of Ig heavy chains and with the constant segment of a given type of Ig heavy chain, such as preferably an IgM, IgG, IgE or IgA heavy chain. Methods for the in vitro diagnosis of a condition associated with an abnormal expression of the repertoire of a given type of Ig heavy chain, and for the in vitro follow-up of a treatment of such a condition, are also included herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2007
    Publication date: July 10, 2008
    Inventors: Annick Lim, Brigitte Lemercier, Philippe Kourilsky, Francois Huetz