Prospective Grant of Exclusive License: Use of Mutants of Human Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Protein-3 (IGFBP-3) in Treatment of Cancer

Zusammenfassung

This is notice, in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(c)(1) and 37 CFR 404.7(a)(1)(i), that the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services is contemplating the grant of an exclusive license to practice the inventions embodied in International Patent Application PCT/US02/40561, "Use of Mutants of Human Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Protein-3 (IGFBP-3) in Treatment of Cancer", by Matthew Rechler, filed on December 17, 2002, and claiming priority to U.S. provisional patent application 60/341,920 filed December 17, 2001, to Actis Biologics Inc., which is located in Livermore, California. The patent rights in these inventions have been assigned to the United States of America. The prospective exclusive license territory will be worldwide and the field of use may be limited to human therapeutics for the treatment of prostate and breast cancers.