Pardes Biosciences, Inc., a clinical–stage biopharmaceutical company, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a new patent No. 11,124,497 (the “‘497 patent”), strengthening the Company’s intellectual property position for the Company’s antiviral drug development program.
The ‘497 patent covers compounds designed to inhibit an essential viral protein, the main protease (Mpro) of SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19.
“We are pleased with the progress in our IP portfolio and our program developments to date. We believe that oral antivirals have the potential to play an important role in ending this pandemic and preventing the next one, and we are committed to developing viral protease inhibitors as potential oral therapies for SARS-CoV-2 infections.” said Uri Lopatin, Chief Executive Officer of Pardes. “This issued patent is the first from our growing IP portfolio and reflects our commitment to discovering and developing novel therapies for important unmet medical needs.”
