Dynavax Issued Landmark Patent Covering Second-Generation TLR9 Agonists

20-Aug-2007

Dynavax Technologies Corporation announced that the U.S. Patent Office has issued the company a broad composition of matter patent covering the company's proprietary second-generation TLR9 agonists.

The claims cover a broad class of novel TLR9 agonists containing short DNA sequences separated by spacer molecules. These linear chimeric immunomodulatory compounds (CICs), are being developed at Dynavax for application across a wide range of therapeutic categories. The claims cover CICs with or without antigen, and alone or in a pharmaceutical preparation. The current term for this patent expires in June 2022. The patent, U.S. patent No. 7,255,868 B2, was issued August 14, 2007 with inventors Karen Fearon, Dino Dina, M.D., and Stephen Tuck.

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