[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 2 (Friday, January 3, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 328-329]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-28356]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health


Prospective Grant of an Exclusive Patent License: Development and 
Commercialization of CD19/CD22 Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) 
Therapies for the Treatment of B-Cell Malignancies

AGENCY: National Institutes of Health, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The National Cancer Institute, an institute of the National 
Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, is 
contemplating the grant of an Exclusive Patent License to practice the 
inventions embodied in the Patents and Patent Applications listed in 
the Supplementary Information section of this Notice to CJ Healthcare, 
(``CJ''), located in Seoul, Republic of Korea.

DATES: Only written comments and/or applications for a license which 
are received by the National Cancer

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Institute's Technology Transfer Center on or before January 21, 2020 
will be considered.

ADDRESSES: Requests for copies of the patent applications, inquiries, 
and comments relating to the contemplated Exclusive Patent License 
should be directed to: Jim Knabb, Senior Technology Transfer Manager, 
NCI Technology Transfer Center, 9609 Medical Center Drive, RM 1E530, 
MSC 9702, Bethesda, MD 20892-9702 (for business mail), Rockville, MD 
20850-9702; Telephone: (240) 276-7856; Facsimile: (240) 276-5504; 
Email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Intellectual Property

E-016-2015: Chimeric Antigen Receptor Targeting Both CD19 and CD22

1. US Provisional Patent Application 62/135,442, filed March 19, 2015 
(E-106-2015-0-US-01);
2. International Patent Application PCT/US2016/023055, filed March 18, 
2016 (E-106-2015/0-PCT-02)
3. US Patent Application No.: 15/559,485, filed September 19, 2017 (E-
E-106-2015/0-US-03)

E-017-2017: CD19/CD22 Bicistronic CAR Targeting Human B-Cell 
Malignancies

1. US Provisional Patent Application 62/506,268, filed May 15, 2017 (E-
017-2017-0-US-01);
2. International Patent Application PCT/US2018/032,809, filed May 15, 
2018 (E-017-2017/0-PCT-02)

    The patent rights in these inventions have been assigned and/or 
exclusively licensed to the government of the United States of America.
    The prospective exclusive license territory may be worldwide, and 
the fields of use may be limited to the following:

    Treatment of B cell malignancies using autologously-derived, 
lentiviral vector transduced, T cells expressing chimeric antigen 
receptor(s) (CAR) dual specific for CD19 and CD22, utilizing the 
anti-CD19 antigen binding domain of the FM63 antibody and the anti-
CD22 antigen binding domain of the M971 antibody

    This technology discloses CAR therapies that target both CD19 and 
CD22 by utilizing the anti-CD19 binder known as FM63 and the anti-CD22 
binder known as M971. CD19 and CD22 are each expressed on the surface 
of B cells in B cell malignancies and are hallmark examples of antigen 
targeting in CAR-T therapies, with CD19-targeting CAR-T therapies being 
the first FDA approved CAR-T, and CD22-targeting CAR-T showing early 
promise in clinical trials for ALL and NHL.
    This Notice is made in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR 
part 404. The prospective exclusive license will be royalty bearing, 
and the prospective exclusive license may be granted unless within 
fifteen (15) days from the date of this published Notice, the National 
Cancer Institute receives written evidence and argument that 
establishes that the grant of the license would not be consistent with 
the requirements of 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR part 404.
    In response to this Notice, the public may file comments or 
objections. Comments and objections, other than those in the form of a 
license application, will not be treated confidentially, and may be 
made publicly available.
    License applications submitted in response to this Notice will be 
presumed to contain business confidential information and any release 
of information from these license applications will be made only as 
required and upon a request under the Freedom of Information Act, 5 
U.S.C. 552.

    Dated: December 20, 2019.
Richard U. Rodriguez,
Associate Director, Technology Transfer Center, National Cancer 
Institute.
[FR Doc. 2019-28356 Filed 1-2-20; 8:45 am]
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