Patent Issued to Commonwealth Biotechnologies, Inc. for Real Time PCR Analysis of the Different Human Herpes Viruses

RICHMOND, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CBI Services, a business unit within the Commonwealth Biotechnologies, Inc. group of companies (NASDAQ Capital Market:CBTE), has been notified that its patent “Detection and Quantification of Human Herpes Viruses” was issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office on March 4, 2008 as US Patent 7,338,761. Robert B. Harris, President, CBI, and Thomas R. Reynolds, Executive Vice President, CBI, are co-inventors of the patent which has been assigned to Vigen Laboratories, Wilmette, IL. The development work leading to the patent was done at CBI under contract to Vigen Laboratories. Under an exclusive royalty-bearing license agreement with Vigen Laboratories, CBI has been performing the assays detailed in the patent for the past seven years for physicians and clinics across the country. Now that it is patent protected, the technology will be offered to third party licensees. CBI and Vigen will share equally in any licensing and royalty stream from a third party licensee.