Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. has disclosed antibody-drug conjugates comprising humanized monoclonal antibody targeting syndecan-1 (SDC1; SYND1; CD138) covalently linked to anticancer and/or cytotoxic agents through linkers reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Shanghai Zedeman Pharmaceutical Technology Co. Ltd. has identified aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) agonists reported to be useful for the treatment of autoimmune disease, cancer, diabetes, eye disorders, viral infections, psoriasis, and inflammatory and neurological disorders, among others.
Zeno Management Inc. has divulged GTPase KRAS (mutant) inhibitors (particularly, KRAS (G12C mutant)) reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Aligos Therapeutics Inc. has described programmed cell death 1 (PDCD1; PD-1; CD279)/PD-1 ligand 1 (PD-L1; CD274) interaction inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma) and hepatitis B.
With inter partes reviews (IPR) once feared as patent killers, the mere fact that an IPR petition challenging a drug or device patent had been filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office was enough to send a company’s stock tumbling. That initial fear has “kind of ebbed and flowed” over the past 12 years as the patent reviews established by the America Invents Act have come of age, Aziz Burgy, a partner and patent litigator at Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP, told BioWorld.
In what represents the first patenting to emerge in the assignee’s name, additional protection is being sought for Rapidpulse Inc.’s aspiration system, which delivers high-frequency pulsed vacuum forces to increase the efficiency of aspiration thrombectomy and remove thrombus from the neurovasculature.
Beijing Primegene Therapeutics Co. Ltd. has identified azacycloalkane compounds acting as rho kinase 1 (ROCK1; p160-ROCK) and/or rho-associated protein kinase 2 (ROCK 2) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of asthma, cancer, insulin resistance, neurodegeneration, osteoporosis and renal failure.
Starg (Wuhan) Pharmaceutical Technology Co. Ltd. has patented compounds acting as cyclin-dependent kinase 2 (CDK2) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Laekna Therapeutics Shanghai Co. Ltd. has synthesized ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase 1 (USP1) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
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