LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Concert Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: CNCE) today announced that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a final written decision in connection with the inter partes review (IPR) of U.S. Patent No. 9,249,149 (the ‘149 patent). While PTAB found that the claims of the '149 patent are not patentable, the IPR decision is appealable to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and Concert remains committed to defending the ‘149 patent. The '149 patent remains valid and enforceable until appeals have been exhausted.
“While we’re disappointed in this outcome, we believe we have strong arguments supporting the validity of our patent and intend to appeal the decision as we work to create additional intellectual property protecting CTP-543,” stated Roger Tung, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer of Concert Pharmaceuticals. “We remain highly committed to the continued advancement of CTP-543 as a potential treatment for alopecia areata. The outcome of this proceeding does not prohibit us from developing CTP-543 for alopecia areata and our development timelines for CTP-543 remain on track. Importantly, today’s decision is specific to certain patent claims covering CTP-543 and does not affect other programs in our portfolio.”
In April 2017, Incyte filed a petition challenging the validity of the ‘149 patent. Documents relating to the IPR can be accessed online at: http://www.concertpharma.com/technology-overview/intellectual-property/
About Concert
Concert
Pharmaceuticals is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company
focused on applying its DCE
Platform® (deuterated chemical entity platform) to create novel
medicines designed to treat serious diseases and address unmet patient
needs. The Company’s approach starts with previously studied compounds,
including approved drugs, in which deuterium substitution has the
potential to enhance clinical safety, tolerability or efficacy.
Concert’s pipeline of
innovative medicines currently targets autoimmune diseases and central
nervous systems (CNS) disorders. For more information please visit www.concertpharma.com
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