Orthopedics This Week | February 16, 2016 | Page 24

ORTHOPEDICS THIS WEEK
VOLUME 12, ISSUE 6 | FEBRUARY 16, 2016

therapeutics (U.S. Patent application
20150127105).
According to Mike Schramm, the company’s director of intellectual property, the PTAB, “completely reversed
the examiner and tacitly approved
all twenty pending claims of the ‘105
application and we now look forward
to a speedy allowance. The claims of
the ‘105 application build on previously issued US patents 8,123,787 and
8,641,738 to which ‘105 claims priority
and further bolster PRED’s intellectual
property position.”
Genetic Scoliosis Test
The company says its Genetic Scoliosis
Test will, “dramatically” change the way
that scoliosis is diagnosed and treated
in the U.S. “After years of development, testing DNA samples from more
than 9,000 patients, tracking billions of
genotypes and making trillions