compositions of matter including MET-034i and methods of treating disorders, such as diabetes and obesity, using the claimed compositions of matter. Any patents, if issued from the Taiwanese application or issued from an application claiming priority to the PCT application, are expected to expire in 2044, excluding any potentially available patent term adjustment or patent term extension.
MET-224o patent portfolio
We own, jointly with D&D whose joint rights are licensed to us, one pending U.S. provisional patent application. This provisional patent application is directed to compositions of matter including MET-224o and methods of treating disorders such as diabetes and obesity using the claimed compositions of matter. Any patents, if issued from applications claiming priority to this provisional application, are expected to expire in 2045, excluding any potentially available patent term adjustment or patent term extension.
MET-002 patent portfolio
Our MET-002 patent portfolio includes three patent families in-licensed from D&D. One patent family includes one pending U.S. patent application and 15 pending foreign patent applications in United Arab Emirates, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Europe, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Israel, India, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russian Federation, and Saudi Arabia, with claims directed to oral formulations of polypeptide conjugates, such as MET-002, containing a biotin moiety, a fatty acid moiety, or a combination of biotin and fatty acid moieties and methods of treating disorders, such as diabetes and obesity, using the oral formulations. Any patents that may issue from these applications are expected to expire in 2041, excluding any potentially available patent term adjustment or patent term extension. A second patent family includes one pending U.S. patent application and 15 pending foreign patent applications in United Arab Emirates, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Europe, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Israel, India, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russian Federation, and Saudi Arabia, with claims directed to polypeptide conjugates, such as MET-002, containing a biotin moiety, a fatty acid moiety, or both, and methods of treating disorders, such as diabetes and obesity, using the claimed conjugates. Any patents that may issue from these applications are expected to expire in 2041, excluding any potentially available patent term adjustment or patent term extension. A third patent family includes one pending U.S. patent application and 15 pending foreign patent applications in United Arab Emirates, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Europe, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Israel, India, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russian Federation, and Saudi Arabia, with claims directed to formulations containing compositions of matter, such as MET-002, and one or more excipients for oral administration, and methods of treating disorders, such as diabetes and obesity, using the formulations. Any patents that may issue from these applications are expected to expire in 2042, excluding any potentially available patent term adjustment or patent term extension.
Trade secret and other protection
We also depend upon the skills, knowledge and experience of our scientific and technical personnel, as well as that of our advisors, consultants and other contractors. To help protect our proprietary know-how, we rely on trade secret protection and confidentiality agreements to protect our interests. We require our employees and consultants to execute confidentiality and invention assignment agreements upon accepting employment or entering into other relationships with us. These agreements provide that all confidential information concerning our business, technology or financial affairs developed by or made known to the individual during the course of the individual’s relationship with us is to be kept confidential. The agreements also provide that all inventions conceived by the individual under the agreements are our exclusive property. We are diligent in taking precautions that our proprietary information is not released to third parties through the use of a variety of physical and cyber security measures.
Other intellectual property rights
We seek trademark protection in the United States and abroad when appropriate. We have filed for U.S. trademark protection for the following marks: METSERA, MOMENTUM, and HALO. We currently have no registered trademarks in the United States.
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