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Seattle, WA -- (August 10, 2021) Kineta Inc, through its subsidiary Kineta Chronic Pain LLC, announced today that the company has received Patent No. 11,014,970 for Modifications and Uses of Conotoxin Peptides from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) related to KCP506, the company’s novel non-opioid therapy in development to treat chronic neuropathic pain. Among other claims, the patent covers the composition of matter of KCP506.
“The allowance of this patent in the U.S. substantially strengthens our intellectual property position, an important milestone for KCP506’s development and potential commercialization,” said Kineta Eric Tarcha, PhD., EVP Research and Development at Kineta. “With a significant need for an effective therapy to treat chronic neuropathic pain, KCP506 has the potential to provide a non-opioid treatment option with a novel drug mechanism relative to conventional pain therapies.”
A Notice of Allowance is issued after the USPTO makes a determination that a patent should be granted from an application. The patent will have a term that expires no earlier than 2035.
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