Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
TC

Thomas R. Cech — 42 Patents

GEGeron: 25 patents #6 of 147Top 5%
UCUniversity of Colorado: 20 patents #2 of 930Top 1%
UPUniversity Patents: 5 patents #12 of 224Top 6%
CTCompetitive Technologies: 3 patents #5 of 36Top 15%
UFUniversity Research Foundation: 3 patents #4 of 49Top 9%
Boulder, CO: #91 of 5,018 inventorsTop 2%
Colorado: #596 of 40,980 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #72,062 of 4,157,543Top 2%
42 Patents All Time
Thomas R. Cech has been granted 42 US patents while listed as an inventor at Geron. The first was granted in 1991 and the most recent in April 2014. Thomas R. Cech ranks #72,062 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.7%). Patent records list Thomas R. Cech in Boulder, CO, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 42 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8709995 Method for eliciting an immune response to human telomerase reverse transcriptase Joachim Lingner, Toru Nakamura, Karen B. Chapman, Gregg B. Morin, Calvin B. Harley +1 more 2014-04-29 $9,000,000
8236774 Human telomerase catalytic subunit Joachim Lingner, Toru Nakamura, Karen B. Chapman, Gregg B. Morin, Calvin B. Harley +1 more 2012-08-07 $3,133,000
8222392 Kit for detection of telomerase reverse transcriptase nucleic acids Joachim Lingner, Toru Nakamura, Karen B. Chapman, Gregg B. Morin, Calvin B. Harley +1 more 2012-07-17 $2,952,000
7750121 Antibody to telomerase reverse transcriptive Joachim Lingner, Toru Nakamura, Karen B. Chapman, Gregg B. Morin, Calvin B. Harley +1 more 2010-07-06 $5,353,000
7622549 Human telomerase reverse transcriptase polypeptides Joachim Lingner, Toru Nakamura, Karen B. Chapman, Gregg B. Morin, Calvin B. Harley +1 more 2009-11-24 $9,507,000
7585622 Increasing the proliferative capacity of cells using telomerase reverse transcriptase Joachim Lingner, Toru Nakamura, Karen B. Chapman, Gregg B. Morin, Calvin B. Harley +1 more 2009-09-08 $6,731,000
7560437 Nucleic acid compositions for eliciting an immune response against telomerase reverse transcriptase Joachim Lingner, Toru Nakamura, Karen B. Chapman, Gregg B. Morin, Calvin B. Harley +1 more 2009-07-14 $6,931,000
7517971 Muteins of human telomerase reverse transcriptase lacking telomerase catalytic activity Joachim Lingner, Toru Nakamura, Karen B. Chapman, Gregg B. Morin, Calvin B. Harley +1 more 2009-04-14 $9,356,000
7413864 Treating cancer using a telomerase vaccine Joachim Lingner, Toru Nakamura, Karen B. Chapman, Gregg B. Morin, Calvin B. Harley +1 more 2008-08-19 $1,002,000
7297488 Identifying and testing antisense oligonucleotides that inhibit telomerase reverse transcriptase Joachim Lingner, Toru Nakamura, Karen B. Chapman, Gregg B. Morin, Calvin B. Harley +1 more 2007-11-20 $2,595,000
7285639 Antibody to telomerase reverse transcriptase Joachim Lingner, Toru Nakamura, Karen B. Chapman, Gregg B. Morin, Calvin B. Harley +1 more 2007-10-23 $6,049,000
7262288 Nucleic acids encoding human telomerase reverse transcriptase and related homologs Joachim Lingner, Toru Nakamura, Karen B. Chapman, Gregg B. Morin, Calvin B. Harley +1 more 2007-08-28 $3,072,000
7195911 Mammalian cells that have increased proliferative capacity Joachim Lingner, Toru Nakamura, Karen B. Chapman, Gregg B. Morin, Calvin B. Harley +1 more 2007-03-27 $4,391,000
7056513 Telomerase Joachim Lingner, Toru Nakamura, Karen B. Chapman, Gregg B. Morin, Calvin B. Harley +1 more 2006-06-06 $4,931,000
7045293 Alteration of sequence of a target molecule Bruce A. Sullenger 2006-05-16
7005262 Methods for detecting nucleic acids encoding human telomerase reverse transcriptase Joachim Lingner, Toru Nakamura, Karen B. Chapman, Gregg B. Morin, Calvin B. Harley +1 more 2006-02-28 $6,914,000
6927285 Genes for human telomerase reverse transcriptase and telomerase variants Joachim Lingner, Toru Nakamura, Karen B. Chapman, Gregg B. Morin, Calvin B. Harley +1 more 2005-08-09 $7,725,000
6921664 Telomerase Joachim Lingner, Toru Nakamura, Karen B. Chapman, Gregg B. Morin, Calvin B. Harley +1 more 2005-07-26 $4,033,000
6897016 Alteration of sequence of a target molecule Bruce A. Sullenger 2005-05-24
6808880 Method for detecting polynucleotides encoding telomerase Joachim Lingner, Toru Nakamura, Karen B. Chapman, Gregg B. Morin, Calvin B. Harley +1 more 2004-10-26 $4,428,000
6753411 Protection-of-telomere-1 (POT-1) proteins Peter Baumann 2004-06-22
6696250 RNA ribozyme polymerases, dephosphorylases, restriction endoribonucleases and methods Arthur J. Zaug, Michael D. Been 2004-02-24 $751,000
6627619 Antisense compositions for detecting and inhibiting telomerase reverse transcriptase Joachim Lingner, Toru Nakamura, Karen B. Chapman, Gregg B. Morin, Calvin B. Harley +1 more 2003-09-30 $19,065,000
6617110 Cells immortalized with telomerase reverse transcriptase for use in drug screening Joachim Lingner, Toru Nakamura, Karen B. Chapman, Gregg B. Morin, Calvin B. Harley +1 more 2003-09-09 $11,810,000
6475789 Human telomerase catalytic subunit: diagnostic and therapeutic methods Joachim Lingner, Toru Nakamura, Karen B. Chapman, Gregg B. Morin, Calvin B. Harley +1 more 2002-11-05 $1,670,000