Crystals and IP

Linda McCauslandHead of Physical Sciences

April 2011

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OverviewSome of the most important subject matters in Pharmaceutical

IP are also the key solutions in pharmaceutical development.

They are:– Crystalline forms (polymorphs, hydrates and solvates)– Salts– Cocrystals– Amorphous materials

They form creative solutions to the challenges of pharmaceutical development, which is often fraught with failure. Rescuing the drug can in turn provide enhanced IP protection throughout the product lifecycle.

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Issues or Advantages?

Purity

Yield

Crystal size

Solids handling

Solubility

Polymorphism

Crystalshape

Scale-up

Solvates & Hydrates

Isolation

Dissolution

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Protecting Invention

Patents of solid forms, especially crystalline forms, are successfully protecting the market share of the innovators of current top selling pharmaceuticals.

In order to protect invention in the pharmaceutical field, scientifically strong data are absolutely essential in making strong patents. We provide such scientific service to ensure your patents on solid forms become successful.

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IP services

Based on the screening studies on your compound (performed by yourselves, here at Almac or a 3rd party) we can provide the following services

1. Collaborate with your patent attorney to determine additional work needed (or recommend an experienced patent attorney for prosecuting solid form patents)

2. Perform prior art search

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IP services continued…

3. Determine potential issues from prior art (that relates to your new invention)

4. Perform necessary laboratory experiments to overcome the prior art issues

5. Perform necessary laboratory experiments to provide good working examples and advantages for each solid form

6. Provide your patent attorney with a technical package to draft a patent application form

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About us

Almac has served global pharmaceutical industry for over 30 years in discovery, process development, manufacturing, formulation and clinical services. We can utilize over 300 highly skilled scientists who are organic chemists, solid state chemists, analysts, and formulation scientists, operating in state of the art facilities in the UK and the USA.

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Experience

Our expertise built from a large volume of diverse projects puts us in a unique position to provide expert witnessing services to pharmaceutical litigation cases, as a testifying or non-testifying witness. We provide services to both infringement and Paragraph IV cases.

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Technical consultancy & support

We provide technical expertise to assist in successful patent prosecution This service includes technical consultancy for IP and technical support for successful prosecution to overcome rejections and oppositions.