Intellectual Property - January 10, 2018
Cantargia receives patent approval in China
The Chinese patent office, the State Intellectual Property Office, has formally approved the company’s patent application for IL1RAP as target molecule for antibody therapy of several types of solid tumours. Cantargia is developing antibodies against IL1RAP for treatment of life-threatening diseases. The company’s main project, the immuno-oncology antibody CAN04, which Nordic Life Science previously has […]
Intellectual Property - December 14, 2017
Idogen has been granted a patent in the USA
The United States Patent & Trademark Office has granted a patent covering the company’s technology for tolerogenic immune therapy. This technology forms the basis of the new therapies developed by Idogen to prevent the immune system from disabling the standard treatment of hemophilia, as well as causing rejection of transplanted organs. Patents in the same […]
Intellectual Property - November 13, 2017
OxThera granted new patents
OxThera has recently been granted two new US patents, three new Europeanpatents and patents in Canada, China, Hong-Kong, India and Japan. OxThera now holds proprietary rights to pharmaceutical preparations and their use for treatment of hyperoxaluria in nine patent families. The newly granted US patents have numbers US8900575 and US8940295 covering pharmaceutical compositions of oxalate decarboxylase. The new European patents have numbers EP2449098 covering pharmaceutical compositions of oxalate decarboxylase, EP1771201 and EP1965816 covering pharmaceutical compositions of Oxalobacter formigenes. […]
Biotech Business - October 13, 2017
BioArctic granted patent in Europe
BioArctic announces that the European Patent Office (EPO) has decided to grant a European patent (EP2539366) to BioArctic AB and the patent will be published on November 08, 2017. The European patent EP2539366 covers the monoclonal antibody candidate BAN0805 per se, intended for treatment of neurodegenerative disorders, including Parkinson’s disease. Validated national patents will expire on February 25, […]
Intellectual Property - October 11, 2017
New patent for InDex Pharmaceuticals
InDex Pharmaceuticals Holding announces that a new method of use patent for the drug candidate cobitolimod will be issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The patent provides additional protection for treating chronic active ulcerative colitis in patients that are not responding or are intolerant to anti-inflammatory therapy, wherein cobitolimod is not […]
Biotech Business - October 10, 2017
Athera allowed US composition of matter patents for therapeutic antibodies
Athera Biotechnologies has announced that two composition of matter patents have been allowed for antibodies with binding to phosphorylcholine, PC. The PC target is part of modified phospholipids and has been characterized as an active driver of vascular inflammation. The therapeutic antibodies covered by the patents are designed to target and block PC and thereby […]