European Patent Office Appeal Board Rules in Favor of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals’s Kreutzer-Limmer Patent

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALNY), a leading RNAi therapeutics company, announced today that the Board of Appeals of the European Patent Office (EPO) has ruled that claims of the Kreutzer-Limmer ’945 (EP 1214945) patent meet needed requirements under European patent law. The ’945 patent comprises broad claims covering the length and certain structural requirements for siRNAs that are important for advancement of RNAi therapeutics.
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