Arrowhead Research VP of Intellectual Property to Speak at NanoBusiness 2006
NanoBusiness 2006
PASADENA, California – (BUSINESS WIRE) – May 16, 2006 – Arrowhead Research Corporation (Nasdaq:ARWR) announced that its vice president of intellectual property, John C. Miller, will participate in the Fifth Annual NanoBusiness 2006 conference in the Converging Technologies Bar Association Tutorial to be held on Thursday, May 18, from 2:30-4 p.m. at the New York Marriott Marquis.
Beyond serving as vice president, intellectual property for Arrowhead Research Corporation, Miller is founder of NanoPolaris, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Arrowhead Research Corporation, which offers a customized nanotube patent portfolio licensing program.
Miller is also managing editor of Nanotechnology Law & Business, a peer-reviewed, quarterly journal. He has published various articles on nanotechnology legal and policy issues and co-authored "The Handbook of Nanotechnology Business, Policy, and Intellectual Property Law" (John Wiley, 2004). He is a member of the California Bar and federal courts in the Northern District of California.
About Arrowhead Research Corporation
Arrowhead Research Corporation (www.arrowheadresearch.com) is a publicly-traded nanotechnology company commercializing new technologies in the areas of life sciences, electronics, and energy. Arrowhead is building value for shareholders through the progress of majority owned subsidiaries founded on nanotechnologies originally developed at universities. The company works closely with universities to source early stage deals and to generate rights to intellectual property covering promising new nanotechnologies. Currently, Arrowhead has four subsidiaries commercializing nanotech products and applications, including anti-cancer drugs, RNAi therapeutics, carbon-based electronics and compound semiconductor materials.
About NanoPolaris, Inc.
NanoPolaris is a wholly owned subsidiary of Arrowhead Research Corporation. With exclusively licensed commercial rights to nanotube technology developed at some of the world's most respected research universities, the NanoPolaris IP portfolio includes patents and patent applications claiming nanotube compositions of matter and general manufacturing techniques such as chemical vapor deposition synthesis, plasma chemical vapor deposition synthesis, purification, solubilization, separation of certain types of tubes, coatings, functionalization, and manipulation. NanoPolaris is developing a customized portfolio license program for customers in different industries who will utilize nanotube technology with their products.
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