Fresh developments from spider silk maker
Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, a developer of spider silk-based fibres, has filed two additional patents to strengthen its intellectual property protection surrounding its transgenic silkworms and spider silk technologies.
These patent applications, which were made in collaboration with the US’s University of Notre Dame, are designed to protect the creation of the Kraig Labs transgenic silkworms and the resultant chimeric spider silk. The company has open patent actions in 10 countries.
“From our inception, Kraig Labs has remained dedicated to a spirit of innovation and refused to accept can’t as an answer,” said founder CEO Kim Thompson.
“This pursuit of the seemingly impossible led to a series of first of its kind inventions, including our recently announced Dragon Silk genetic line. The filling of these two additional patents seeks to protect the creativity and value of that work for Kraig Labs and our shareholders, and goes hand in hand with our commercial market development plans.”
See an upcoming issue of WSA for an indepth look at what spider silk can offer to the textiles industry.
