Patents by Inventor Gerd J. Ritter

Gerd J. Ritter 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).

  • Vaccine for stimulating or enhancing production of antibodies against 9-O-acetyl GD3
    Patent number: 5102663
    Abstract: The present invention provides a vaccine for stimulating or enhancing in a subject to whom the vaccine is administered, production of antibodies directed against 9-O-acetyl GD3 ganglioside comprising an amount of purified 9-O-acetyl GD3 ganglioside effective to stimulate or enhance antibody productionThis invention was made with government support under Grant Numbers CA-40532 and CA-43971, National Cancer Institute, Department of Health and Human Services. Accordingly, the U.S. Government has certain rights in the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1992
    Assignee: Sloan-Kettering Instutute for Cancer Research
    Inventors: Philip O. Livingston, Gerd J. Ritter, Herbert F. Oettgen, Lloyd J. Old