Yarrow Therapeutics Inc. has divulged antibody-drug conjugates comprising antibody or antigen binding fragments covalently linked to ecteinascidin derivatives through linkers reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
Reistone Biopharma Co. Ltd. has described phosphodiesterase PDE4B1 inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, acute respiratory distress syndrome, atopic dermatitis, overactive bladder, psoriasis, ulcerative colitis and urticaria, among others.
Scientists from Shanghai Aryl Pharmtech Co. Ltd. and Zhejiang Hisun Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. have identified UDP-3-O-(R-3-hydroxymyristoyl)-N-acetylglucosamine deacetylase (LpxC) (bacterial) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment gram-negative bacterial infections.
Chengdu Chipscreen Pharmaceutical Ltd. has discovered Werner syndrome ATP-dependent helicase (WRN; RECQ3; RECQL2) inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
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.
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