Patents by Inventor Gary S. Cobon

Gary S. Cobon 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).

  • DNA encoding a cell membrane glycoprotein of a tick gut
    Patent number: 5587311
    Abstract: The invention relates to antigens derived from ticks and to their purification. It also relates to genes encoding such antigens and to their cloning and expression from recombinant DNA molecules. Further, the invention describes the use of purified antigens and recombinant expression products having similar biological activity to those purified antigens to provide vaccines to protect cattle against tick infestation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1996
    Assignees: Biotechnology Australia Pty. Ltd., Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization
    Inventors: Gary S. Cobon, Joanna T. Moore, Law A. Y. Johnston, Peter Willadsen, David H. Kemp, Alagacone Sriskantha, George A. Riding, Keith N. Rand
  • Haemonchus contortus vaccine
    Patent number: 5525508
    Abstract: A substantially purified antigen derived from a first species of parasitic nematodes, which antigen is capable of providing protection to a host from parasitism by a second nematode species, which may be the same as or different from the first nematode species, following vaccination of the host with the antigen, characterized in that the antigen is proteinaceous, has a pI between 3.8 and 4.4, can be bound by lentil lectin and Helix promatia lectin and has a molecular weight of approximately 45 kD as determined by SDS-PAGE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1996
    Assignees: Biotech Australia Pty Limited, Commonwealth and Industrial Research Organization
    Inventors: Phillip J. Sharp, Barry M. Wagland, Gary S. Cobon