 Supporters of Hwang founded a company called Sooam Biotech where Hwang developed proprietary techniques based on a licence from ViaGen 's subsidiary Start Licensing ( which owns the original Dolly patent ) and created cloned dogs for owners whose dogs had died , charging $ 100 @,@ 000 a time Sooam Biotech was reported to have cloned 700 dogs by 2015 and to be producing 500 cloned embryos of various species a day in 2016 . 
