Alligator Bioscience receives patent approval for the drug candidate ATOR-1015
Lund, Sweden, September 16, 2020 – Alligator Bioscience (Nasdaq Stockholm: ATORX) announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued U.S. Patent No. 10,774,150 which covers compositions of matter directed to Alligator’s bispecific drug candidate ATOR-1015. The granted patent’s earliest expiry year is 2036. “ATOR-1015 constitutes a new concept, a tumor-localizing bispecific CTLA-4 antibody. Our invention addresses one of the key challenges within immuno-oncology, i.e. the narrow therapeutic window of CTLA-4 drugs. This is now protected by a granted US