Prospective Grant of Exclusive License: Field of Use: Treatment of Inflammatory Diseases Using Ghrelin

الملخص

This is notice, in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(c)(1) and 37 CFR 404.7(a)(1)(i), that the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services, is contemplating the grant of an exclusive license to practice the invention embodied in: U.S. Provisional Patent application, S/N 60/569,819 filed May 11, 2004, entitled "Methods for Inhibiting Proinflammatory Cytokine Expression Using Ghrelin," converted to PCT on May 11, 2005 (E-016- 2004/0-PCT-02), (Inventors: Vishwa D. Dixit, Dennis D. Taub, Eric Schaffer, and Dzung Nguyen) (NIA), to Sapphire Therapeutics, Inc. (Hereafter Sapphire), having a place of business in Bridgewater of NJ. The patent rights in these inventions have been assigned to the United States of America.