Prospective Grant of Exclusive License: Use of Methanocarba Analogues of Purine and Pyrimidine Nucleosides and Nucleotides to Treat or Prevent Cardiac Diseases in Humans

This is notice, in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(c)(1) and 37 CFR 404.7(a)(1)(i), that the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is contemplating the grant of a worldwide exclusive evaluation option license, to practice the inventions embodied in U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/ 176,373, filed January 14, 2000 and currently abandoned [HHS Ref. No. E-176-1999/0-US-01]; PCT Application PCT/US01/00981, filed January 12, 2001 and currently expired [HHS Ref. No. E-176-1999/0-PCT-02]; U.S. Patent Application No. 10/169,975, filed July 12, 2002 and issued as U.S. Patent No. 7,087,589 on August 8, 2006 [HHS Ref. No. E-176-1999/0- US-06]; U.S. Patent Application No. 11/500,860, filed August 8, 2006 and issued as U.S. Patent No. 7,790,735 on September 14, 2006 [HHS Ref. No. E-176-1999/0-US-07]; Australian Patent Application No. 2001230913, filed January 12, 2001 and issued as Australian Patent No. 2001230913 on October 13, 2005 [HHS Ref. No. E-176-1999/0-AU-03]; Canadian Patent Application No. 2,397,366, filed January 12, 2001 and issued as Canadian Patent No. 2,397,366 on March 15, 2011 [HHS Ref. No. E-176- 1999/0-CA-04]; European Patent Application No. 01903043.6, filed January 12, 2001 and issued as European Patent No. 1252160 on August 6, 2006 and currently abandoned [HHS Ref. No. E-176-1999/0-EP-05]; and UK Patent Application No. 01903043.6, filed January 12, 2001 and issued as UK Patent No. 1252160 on August 16, 2006 [HHS Ref. No. E-176-1999/0-GB- 08], entitled "Methanocarba Cycloalkyl Nucleoside Analogues" to Cornovus Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a company incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware having its headquarters in Farmington, Connecticut. The United States of America is the assignee of the rights of the above inventions. The prospective exclusive evaluation option license territory may be "worldwide", and the field of use may be limited to "The use of (1'S,2R,3S,4'R,5'S)-4- (6-amino-2-chloro-9H-purin-9-yl)-1-[phosphoryloxymethyl] bicycle[3.1.0]hexane-2,3-diol) (MRS2339) to treat and/or prevent cardiac diseases in humans." Upon the expiration or termination of the exclusive evaluation option license, Cornovus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. will have the right to execute an exclusive patent commercialization license which will supersede and replace the exclusive evaluation option license with no greater field of use and territory than granted in the evaluation license.