METHOD AND COMPOSITIONS FOR SELECTIVELY INHIBITING AMPLIFICATION OF SEQUENCES IN A POPULATION OF NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES - Patent 1226281

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EP 1 226 281 A2

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(88)	Date of publication A3:
	23.05.2002

(43)	Date of publication:
	31.07.2002 Bulletin 2002/31

(21)	Application number: 00991917.6

(22)	Date of filing: 02.11.2000

(51)	International Patent Classification (IPC)⁷: C12Q 1/68

(86)	International application number:
	PCT/US0041/798

(87)	International publication number:
	WO 0132/931 (10.05.2001 Gazette 2001/19)

(84)	Designated Contracting States:
	AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE TR
	Designated Extension States:
	AL LT LV MK RO SI

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Priority:

02.11.1999 US 162943 P

(71)	Applicant: Curagen Corporation
	New Haven, CT 06511 (US)

(72)	Inventors:
	OEMAR, Barry, S. Shrewsbury, MA 01545 (US) SIMONS, Jan, F. New Haven, CT 06511 (US)

(74)	Representative: Schlich, George William et al
	Mathys & Squire100 Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8AL London WC1X 8AL (GB)

(54)	METHOD AND COMPOSITIONS FOR SELECTIVELY INHIBITING AMPLIFICATION OF SEQUENCES IN A POPULATION OF NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES