Royalty Report: Drugs, Cancer, Disease – Collection: 304180

License Grant

Licensor grants it nonexclusive rights, with certain sublicense rights, for know-how and patents allowing exploitation of certain single chain antibody products to the Licensee.

License Property

These patents cover some key aspects of Vicinium.  

Vicinium, also known as VB4-845, is a locally-administered targeted fusion protein composed of an anti-epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) antibody fragment tethered to a truncated form of Pseudomonas exotoxin A for the treatment of high-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC).

Field of Use

The agreement grants Licensee access to Licensor’s patent technology for certain antibody products to be used for the treatment of bladder cancer.

Licensee is a late-stage clinical company developing targeted fusion protein therapeutics (TFPTs) for the treatment of patients with cancer.

License Grant

The Licensor granted Chinese Licensee an exclusive, sublicensable, royalty-bearing license, under certain intellectual property owned or exclusively licensed by the Licensor, to develop, manufacture and commercialize Vicineumâ„¢ (the Licensed Product) for the treatment of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) and other types of cancer (the Field) in China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan (the Territory). The Licensor also granted Licensee a non-exclusive, sublicensable, royalty-bearing sublicense, under certain other intellectual property licensed by the Licensor to develop, manufacture and commercialize the Licensed Product in the Territory. The Licensor retains development, manufacturing and commercialization rights with respect to Vicineum in the rest of the world.

License Property

Licensed Product means VicineumTM, also known as VB4-845, a locally-administered targeted fusion protein composed of an anti-epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) antibody fragment tethered to a truncated form of Pseudomonas exotoxin A. The Licensor has an ongoing single-arm, multi-center, open-label Phase 3 clinical trial of Vicineum as a monotherapy in patients with high-risk, bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG)-unresponsive non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) (the VISTA Trial).

Licensor is a late-stage clinical company developing targeted fusion protein therapeutics (TFPTs) for the treatment of patients with cancer.

Field of Use

“Field” means the prevention and treatment of cancers, including; but not limited to, high-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (“NMIBC”), and various sub-types of NMIBC.

License Grant

Licensor granted the Turkish Licensee an exclusive license to register and commercialize Vicineum for the treatment of BCG-unresponsive NMIBC in Turkey and Northern Cyprus.

License Property

Vicineum is a locally administered fusion protein developed for bladder cancer. Vicineum is comprised of a recombinant fusion protein that targets epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) antigens on the surface of tumor cells to deliver a potent protein payload, Pseudomonas Exotoxin A. Vicineum is constructed with a stable, genetically engineered peptide tether to ensure the payload remains attached until it is internalized by cancer cell, which is believed to decrease the risk of toxicity to healthy tissues, thereby improving its safety.

Field of Use

Field of use is for the treatment of BCG-unresponsive NMIBC, a non-muscle invasive bladder cancer.

License Grant

The Swiss University grants the Canadian Licensee a royalty bearing, exclusive license (with the right to sublicense) under Patent Rights to make, have made, use, sell, offer for sale, and import Licensed Products and to practice Licensed Methods, in the Field within the Territory and during the Term for the treatment of disease in humans.

The agreement grants the exclusive rights, with the right to sublicense, to make, have made, use, sell, offer for sale, and import under certain patents primarily directed to Licensee’s targeting agent, including epithelial cell adhesion molecule, or EpCAM, chimera, and related immunoconjugates and methods of use and manufacture of the same.

License Property

University is owner of Patent Rights as defined below on a stabilized anti-EGP-2 scFv fragment termed 4D5MOC-B.

The families of 48 patents and four applications licensed include composition of matter claims directed EpCAM antibody chimeras, EpCAM antibody chimera-cytotoxin conjugates, and their potential use in treating bladder and head and neck cancer. These families claim all or portions of Vicinium and Proxinium, as well as certain of their respective indications under clinical development.

Field of Use

“Field” means the treatment, stasis, and palliation of disease in humans by anti-EGP-2 antibodies or antibody fragments, whether by themselves or in combination with other materials or methods.

License Grant

The License grants the Canadian Licensee a non-exclusive right to certain of the Irish Licensors patent rights and know-how related to certain expression technology, including plasmids, expression strains, plasmid maps and production systems.

License Property

These patents and related know-how cover some key aspects of our product Vicinium for bladder cancer treatment. Recombinant protein expression technology enables analysis of gene regulation and protein structure and function.

Field of Use

This agreement pertains to the cancer drug industry.

License Grant

The German Licensor grants the Swiss Licensee a worldwide, exclusive, right and license, or sublicense, with the right to grant sublicenses, under the Licensed Technology to make, have made, use, offer for sale, sell, and import the Product in the Field in the Territory.

This agreement includes a non-exclusive grant by Licensee to Licensor.

License Property

Licensor is developing a pharmaceutical product comprising a human antibody of IgG-1 subtype binding to EpCAM.

The patents include Novel Method for the Production of anti-human Antigen Receptors and Uses thereof, and, Anti-EpCAM Immunoglobulins.

Decatumumab (MT201) is a recombinant human monoclonal antibody with a binding specificity to epithelial cell adhesion molecule (Ep-CAM). Adecatumumab (MT201) is being evaluated in two European Phase 2 clinical trials, one in patients with prostate cancer, and one in patients with metastatic breast cancer.

Field of Use

The Field means the treatment of human diseases, disorders and conditions.

License Grant

On the Effective Date the Parties have terminated a certain Collaboration Agreement, and with this agreement, the Parties desire to reallocate the rights and responsibilities of the Parties with respect to further research and development of the GM-CSF Target.

Licensor grants to Licensee of Germany an exclusive, worldwide, license under the Licensor Licensed Technology to Exploit Licensed Products.

Licensor grants a worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable and non-terminable license under the Collaboration Patents, as defined in the Collaboration Agreement, with the right to grant and authorize the grant of sublicenses, to Exploit Licensed Products.

License Property

BiTE Product means any composition or formulation consisting of or comprising a bi-specific Single Chain Antibody expressed as a single polypeptide chain, binding to T-cells.

GM-CSF Target means the whole or part of the human granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor identified by the SWISS-PROT entry name CSF2 HUMAN and accession number P0414 l.

Single-Chain Antibodies
Antibodies are proteins produced by the body's immune system in response to the presence of antigens, such as bacteria, viruses or other disease causing agents. Antibodies of identical molecular structure that bind to a specific target are called monoclonal antibodies. Single-chain antibodies are genetically engineered antibodies that incorporate only the antigen binding domains of an antibody. Thus, SCAs have the binding specificity and affinity of monoclonal antibodies; however, in their native form they are only one-fifth to one-sixth the size of a monoclonal. The small size of SCAs typically gives them shorter half-lives than monoclonal antibodies, making them better suited for use in acute indications or in other indications where the large size of a monoclonal antibody would inhibit the compound from reaching the area of potential therapeutic activity. In addition, SCAs are a well-established discovery format-of-choice in generating antibodies from phage or yeast display libraries.

Field of Use

The field for Patent 5,223,409 is solely in the field of manufacture, use or sale of Single Chain Antibodies.

The field of use for this agreement otherwise is limited to not include the right to exploit the Products for Radioimmunoguided Surgery(TM), Reagents and kits in the research market for production and cloning of genes encoding Single Chain Antibodies and their fusions in a filamentous bacteriophage-derived vector system, and for expression and screening of Single Chain Antibodies fused with the minor coat protein or attachment or adsorption protein of filamentous bacteriophage, and, Single Chain Antibodies fused with, or for the assay or purification of, Tumor Necrosis l Factor alpha (TNF-a.) or Lymphotoxin.

Products for Radioimmunoguided SurgeryTM (RIGS'), in which a radiolabelled Single Chain Antibody is administered to a cancer patient; time elapses for preferential concentration of the radiolabelled Single Chain Antibody in neoplastic tissue and decrease of background radioactivity in the patient; and such preferentially concentrated radiolabelled Single Chain Antibody is detected within a surgical operative field by a detector probe placed in juxtaposition with tissue suspected of containing said radiolabelled Single Chain Antibody.