Reply to the Letter of Drs. Chow and Peachey: The Subretinal Microphotodiode Array Retinal Prosthesis II

In response to our rebuttal-letter to the editor, Drs. Chow and Peachey state that our consortium neglects the original authorship and patent claims of Dr. Chow and coworkers. In our opinion this statement is wrong. We have cited the abstract of Dr. Chow [1], the only publication in a scientific journal available at that time from Dr. Chow on this topic, and therefore have informed the reader that he was the first who started to develop a subretinal microphotodiode array for retinal prosthesis.