Lipocine Shares USPTO Decision in Interference Case

Lipocine (NASDAQ:LPCN) announced that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued a Motions Decision based on each party’s motions in an interference case.
As quoted in the press release:

Patent Interference No. 106,045, between Clarus Therapeutics, Inc. (“Clarus”) U.S. Patent No. 8,828,428 (the “Clarus ‘428 Patent”), and Lipocine Inc. (“Lipocine”), U.S. Patent Application No. 14/713,692 (the “Lipocine ‘692 Application”).

The PTAB granted Lipocine’s motion to deny Clarus’ previously accorded priority date for the ‘428 Patent. Therefore, Clarus has a new priority date of April 16, 2014 for the Clarus ‘428 patent.  The PTAB also granted Clarus’ motion to deny Lipocine’s accorded priority date.

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Source: globenewswire.com