Exhibit 10.1
CERTAIN CONFIDENTIAL PORTIONS OF THIS EXHIBIT HAVE BEEN OMITTED AND REPLACED WITH “[***]”. SUCH IDENTIFIED INFORMATION HAS BEEN EXCLUDED FROM THIS EXHIBIT BECAUSE IT IS (I) NOT MATERIAL AND (II) WOULD LIKELY CAUSE COMPETITIVE HARM TO THE COMPANY IF DISCLOSED.
LICENSE AGREEMENT
This License Agreement (“Agreement”), made as of 16 February 2024 (“Effective Date”), is by and among Fusion Pharmaceuticals Inc having an address at 270 Longwood Road South Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8P 0A6 (“Fusion”) and Universität Heidelberg having an address at Grabengasse 1, 69117, Heidelberg, Germany (“UH”) and Euratom represented by the European Commission, Joint Research Centre (“EURATOM”), having an address at B-1049, Brussels, Belgium (“Euratom”). EURATOM, Fusion, and UH are each referred to individually as a “Party” and together as the “Parties.” UH and EURATOM, co-owner of the Licensed patents, are together referred to as “Licensors” or “Licensor” as applicable.
RECITALS
WHEREAS, UH and EURATOM invented a method for treating PSMA expressing cancers, which determines the effective amount of one or more Ac-225-radiopharmaceuticals to be administered to patients;
WHEREAS, UH owns, jointly with EURATOM represented by the European Commission, certain patents relating to an invention titled “Treatment of PMSA expressing cancers” (the “Invention”), corresponding to (i) International Application No. PCT/EP2016/081313, including all national stage entries thereof including United States Patent No. 10,980,901 B2 (the “’901 Patent”) and German utility model DE 21 2016 000 299 U1, (ii) US and international patent applications that claim priority thereto, and continuing applications thereof including any direct or indirect continuations, substitutions, divisionals and continuations-in-part (but only to the extent the claims thereof are enabled by disclosure of the parent application) and continued prosecution applications, (iii) the resulting claims of any patents of addition, restorations, supplementary protection certificates, patents resulting from post-grant proceedings, reissues, reexaminations and extensions, in each case of the claims of any patent specified in (i) or (ii), (iv) all foreign equivalents thereof or of any of the foregoing in (i) through (iii), and (v) any substitutions, counterparts and/or renewals of any of the foregoing (i) through (iv), (collectively, the “Licensed Patents”);
WHEREAS, UH and EURATOM are parties to a Co-ownership Agreement (“COA”) executed on 26.06.2017 pursuant to which UH has the exclusive and irrevocable right to exploit the Invention and the Licensed Patents, including the right to license the Invention to third parties or otherwise the right to allow third parties to use it;
WHEREAS, on February 13, 2023, Fusion filed a Petition at the U.S. Patent Trademark Office (“USPTO”) before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) requesting an inter partes review (“IPR2023-00551”) of claims 1, 2, and 4–13 of U.S. Patent No. 10,980,901 B2;