Royalty Report: Drugs, Cancer, Drug Discovery – Collection: 279358

License Grant

Licensor, a non-profit cancer treatment and research institution,  grants an exclusive worldwide right and license under the Patent Rights in the Field of Use, including the right to sub license, to make, have made, use, have used, lease, sell, have sold, offer to sell, import, and have imported Licensed Products and to use, practice or have practiced Licensed Processes.

License Property

The patents include Synthetic HLA binding peptide Analogues and Uses Thereof, and,  WT-1 HLA Class II binding peptides and Compositions and Methods Comprising Same.

INNO-305 (WT1) Immunotherapy
Wilms tumor protein, or WT1, is a well known and well characterized protein found in the human body. WT1 is normally produced at the embryonic stage of human development and, as people age, expression of the protein is reduced and nearly eliminated. In normal adults, WT1 is present but at very low levels. However, in the case of certain cancers including, acute myelogenous leukemia, or AML, chronic myelogenous leukemia, non-small cell lung cancer and mesothelioma, the protein is found in very high levels. Because normal levels of WT1 are low and cancer levels of WT1 are high, we believe WT1 is an attractive target for cancer immunotherapy.

Field of Use

The Field of Use shall mean the use of WT-1 polynucleotides and peptides, and mutants and derivatives thereof, and peptides, antibodies/tetramers and vaccines developed therefrom, for research and development and to treat, diagnose and prevent cancers and other diseases, disorders or conditions.

License Grant

Licensor, a non-profit cancer treatment and research institution, granted the Company an exclusive, worldwide License under certain U.S. and foreign patents and patent applications owned or controlled by Licensor, or the Licensor's Patents, to develop, manufacture, use, market, sell, offer to sell, import and export certain products related to the development, manufacture, marketing and sale of therapeutic vaccines for the treatment of various cancers.

Subject to certain limitations, the Company will have the right to subLicense the foregoing rights granted.

Licensor grants an exclusive worldwide right and license under the Patent Rights, including the right to sublicense, to make, offer for sale, import, have made, use, lease and sell Licensed Products and to practice Licensed Processes in the Field of Use.

Licensor grants an exclusive, as it relates to commercial purposes, and not exclusive as it relates to non-commercial purposes, worldwide right and license under the Clinical Data, including the right to sublicense, to make, offer for sale, import, have made, use, lease and sell Licensed Products and to practice the Licensed Processes in the Field of Use.

Licensor grants a non-exclusive worldwide right and license under the Know How, including the right to sublicense, to make, offer for sale, import, have made, use, lease and sell Licensed Products and to practice the Licensed Processes in the Field of Use.

License Property

Licensor is the sole owner of certain Patent Rights and Know How relating to Polyvalent Conjugate Vaccines for Cancer.

The patents include, but are not limited to
Ganglioside-KLH Conjugate Vaccines Plus QS21;
Synthetic Compounds Which Bind To H. Pylori And Uses Thereof;
Alpha-O-Linked Glycycoconjugates with Clustered (2,6)-ST Epitopes, Methods of Preparation and Uses Thereof; and,
Polyvalent Conjugate Vaccine for Cancer.

Field of Use

The Field of Use shall mean monovalent and multi-molecular polyvalent cancer vaccines, except that, for the Globo H antigen, Field of Use shall mean multi-molecular polyvalent cancer vaccines. Multi-molecular polyvalent cancer vaccine means a cancer vaccine containing more that one type of antigen but not in the same molecule.

License Grant

The Licensee entered into a royalty Agreement with the Licensor and received the following assets from the Licensor

License Property

Certain patents and patent applications and all related active prosecution cases, trade secrets, know-how and certain other intellectual property rights, and all of the Licensor's goodwill with respect to the technology directly related to the research, development and commercialization of certain products and know-how related to hES cells;

Certain biological materials and reagents (including master and working cell banks, original and seed banks, and research, pilot and GMP grade lots and finished product);

Certain regulatory filings for clinical trials for GRNOPC-I for spinal cord injury, including the investigational new drug applications filed with the United States Food and Drug Administration for Licensor’s Phase I safety study of oligodendrocyte progenitor (GRNOPC-1) cells in patients with neurologically complete, subacute spinal cord injury (Protocol No. CP35A007), and long term follow up of subjects who received GRNOPC1 (Protocol No. CP35A008), and the clinical trial for VAC1 for acute myelogenous leukemia, including a Phase I/II study of active immunotherapy with GRNVAC1, autologous mature dendritic cells transfected with mRNA encoding human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT), in patients with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) in complete remission (Protocol No. CP06-151).

US Patent 6,800,480 – Methods and Materials for the Growth of Primate-Derived Primordial Stem Cells in Feeder-Free Culture
US Patent 7,413,902 – Feeder-Free Culture Method for Embryonic Stem Cells
US Patent 6,440,735 – Dendritic Cell Vaccine Containing Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase for the Treatment of Cancer
US Patent 7,402,307 – Method for Identifying and Killing Cancer Cells
US Patent 7,824,849 – Cellular Telomerase Vaccine and Its Use for Treating Cancer
US Patent 7,560,281 – Use of TGF Beta Superfamily Antagonists to Make Dopaminergic Neurons from Embryonic Stem Cells
US Patent 8,252,586 – Neural Cell Populations from Primate Pluripotent Stem Cells
US Patent 8,153,428 – Use of TGF Beta Superfamily Antagonists and Neurotrophins to Make Neurons from Embryonic Stem Cells
US Patent 6,667,176 – cDNA Libraries Reflecting Gene Expression During Growth and Differentiation of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells
US Patent 7,041,438 – Use of Human Embryonic Stem Cells for Drug Screening and Toxicity Testing
US Patent 7,413,904 – Embryonic Stem Cells Having Genetic Modifications
US Patent 7,410,798 – Culture System for Rapid Expansion of Human Embryonic Stem Cells
US Patent 7,297,539 – Medium for Growing Human Embryonic Stem Cells
US Patent 7,455,983 – Medium for Growing Human Embryonic Stem Cells
US Patent 8,097,458 – Culture System for Rapid Expansion of Human Embryonic Stem Cells
US Patent 6,642,048 – Conditioned Media for Propagating Human Pluripotent Stem Cells
US Patent 6,458,589 – Hepatocyte Lineage Cells Derived from Pluripotent Stem Cells
US Patent 6,506,574 – Hepatocyte Lineage Cells Derived from Pluripotent Stem Cells
US Patent 7,256,042 – Process for Making Hepatocytes from Pluripotent Stem Cells
US Patent 7,282,366 – Hepatocytes for Therapy and Drug Screening Made From Embryonic Stem Cells
US Patent 7,473,555 – Protocols for Making Hepatocytes from Embryonic Stem Cells
US Patent 8,148,151 – Differentiation of Primate Pluripotent Cells to Hepatocyte-Lineage Cells
US Patent 6,833,269 – Making Neural Cells for Human Therapy or Drug Screening from Human Embryonic Stem Cells
US Patent 8,148,148 – Neural Progenitor Cell Populations
US Patent 8,252,585 – Neural Progenitor Cell Populations
US Patent 7,250,294 – Screening Small Molecule Drugs Using Neural Cells Differentiated from Human Embryonic Stem Cells
US Patent 7,763,463 – Use of Cyclic AMP and Ascorbic Acid to Produce Dopaminergic Neurons from Embryonic Stem Cells
US Patent 6,576,464 – Differentiated Cells Suitable For Human Therapy
US Patent 6,921,665 – Selective Antibody Targeting of Undifferentiated Stem Cells
US Patent 7,732,199 – Process for Making Transplantable Cardiomyocytes from Human Embryonic Stem Cells
US Patent 7,763,464 – Differentiation Protocol for Making Human Cardiomyocytes
US Patent 7,452,718 – Direct Differentiation Method for Making Cardiomyocytes from Human Embryonic Stem Cells
US Patent 7,897,389 – Direct Differentiation Method for Making Cardiomyocytes from Human Embryonic Stem Cells
US Patent 7,851,167 – Differentiation Protocol for Making Human Cardiomyocytes

US Patent Application 13/561,296 – Neural Cell Populations from Primate Pluripotent Stem Cells
US Patent Application 12/170,219 – Culture System for Rapid Expansion of Human Embryonic Stem Cells
US Patent Application 12/710,078 – Culture System for Rapid Expansion of Human Embryonic Stem Cells
US Patent Application 13/323,567 – Culture System for Rapid Expansion of Human Embryonic Stem Cells
US Patent Application 11/917,993 – Suspension Culture of Human Embryonic Stem Cells
US Patent Application 12/277,136 – Protocols for Making Hepatocytes from Embryonic Stem Cells
US Patent Application 13/558,078 – Neural Progenitor Cell Populations
US Patent Application 11/359,341 – Differentiated Cells Suitable For Human Therapy
US Patent Application 11/471,916 – Differentiation of Primate Pluripotent Stem Cells to Cardiomyocyte-Lineage Cells

Field of Use

The Licensee is a biotechnology company focused on the emerging field of regenerative medicine, with core technologies centered on stem cells capable of becoming all of the cell types in the human body, a property called pluripotency.

License Grant

Licensor grants an exclusive, world-wide license under the Licensed Patents to import, make, have made, use, sell, offer for sale and have sold Licensed Products for the Field of Use.

License Property

Licensor has certain intellectual property rights related to nucleoside analog pharmaceuticals including Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide and prodrugs of Cordycepin.

The patents relate to Nucleoslde Prodrugs Resistant to Metabolic Deactivatlon.

Field of Use

Cordycepin has been studied in a National Cancer Institute-sponsored Phase I clinical trial for treating TdT-positive ALL leukemia patients. The therapy depends upon the presence of TdT for its activity. TdT is a polymerase expressed in immature, pre-B, pre-T lymphoid cells, and acute lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma cells. TdT, and similar enzymes found in fungi and parasites, recognize Cordycepin and its analogues and add them onto growing nucleic acid chains thereby terminating synthesis of the nucleic acid and replication of the cell. Importantly, TdT expression in normal human tissue is limited to primitive lymphoid cells in the bone marrow and thymus, so most normal cells in the body are unaffected by the drug. In addition to effectively treating TdT-positive ALL and CML, Cordycepin can also be used to treat diffuse high-grade lymphoblastic lymphoma, which also expresses TdT.

License Grant

The German Licensor grants an exclusive. even as to Licensor, right and license under the Licensed Technology, to make, have made, use, offer for sale, sell, and import Collaboration Products in the Territory for any use in humans.

Licensor grants a worldwide, co-exclusive, with Licensor, right and license, with the right to grant sublicenses, under the Licensor Collaboration Technology to make, have made, use, offer for sale, sell, and import any product that is not a BiTE Product for any use in humans.

License Property

Collaboration Product means any composition or formulation containing a BiTE Molecule binding to a Collaboration Target.

BiTE Molecule means a polypeptide comprising a bi-specific Single Chain Antibody binding to T-cells.

Target means a cell-surface antigen.  The list of proprietary targets is epha2, alpha – V, and, beta-3.

BiTE(R) molecules are part of a novel class of antibody derivatives that may have the potential to selectively direct and activate the human immune system to act against cancer cells. This action is believed to occur as a result of the molecule's stimulation of T cells to target and destroy cancer cells that express a specific antigen.

Field of Use

This product collaboration is useful for the development of antibody-based pharmaceutical products.

BiTE molecule targeting CD19 is for the potential treatment of certain lymphomas.