Key Australian Patent for Recce's Broad-Spectrum Antibiotics
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ASX Announcement
Key Australian Patent for Recce’s Broad-Spectrum Antibiotics
SYDNEY, Australia, 31 July 2018: Recce Pharmaceuticals Ltd (ASX:RCE) (Company),
the Company developing a new class of broad spectrum synthetic antibiotics, today
announced that Australian patent WO2016/077879 ‘Copolymer and Method for Treatment
of Bacterial Infection’, has been accepted for grant by the Australian Patent Office. The
patent is the first of Recce’s patent family 2 (Multi Drug Applications) and offers significant
additional market monopolies to November 2034.
The Australian patent contains 34 claims, covering Recce’s broad spectrum antibiotic
compounds (herein RECCE® antibiotics), including its lead candidate RECCE® 327, with
particular coverage of:
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Composition/method of manufacture of RECCE® antibiotics
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Use of RECCE® antibiotics for the treatment of bacterial infections in the blood
(bacteraemia - sepsis), meninges, lungs, urinary tract, sinuses, skin, wounds and
abscesses – caused by Gram-positive (G+) and Gram-negative (G-) bacteria,
including in their superbug forms
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Prevention of bacterial infection from surgical procedures
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Administration of RECCE® antibiotics by oral, injection, inhalation and transdermal
application
Examples of some of the G+, G- and superbug forms of common bacteria covered under
the patent include Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Neisseria meningitidis, Escherichia coli,
Klebsiella pneumoniae, Enterococcus species, Proteus species, Staphylococcus species
and Streptococcus species. These bacteria cause serious and at times life-threatening
infections such as septicaemia, meningitis, meningococcal disease, urinary tract infection,
wound infections and pneumonia.
Recce’s commercialisation strategy includes the expansion of its wholly-owned (without
caveat), patent family estate. This newly awarded patent expands opportunities/protection
of the Company’s inventions, as represented through a series of granted and patentpending families, including patent family 1 covering Methods of Manufacture, patent family 2
Multi-drug applications and patent family 3 Anti-viral uses. Family 2 patents filed in Europe
and the USA are in their respective late stages of review.
Recce Executive Chairman, Dr Graham Melrose, said: “Recce’s broad international strategy
to protect and build its unique technology continues to significantly advance. This Australian
patent, the first of many international applications under Patent Family 2, further strengthens
the Company’s overall IP position.”
For further information please visit www.recce.com.au or contact:
Investor Relations
James Graham
Executive Director
Recce Pharmaceuticals Ltd
Tel: +61 (02) 8075 4585
Media (Australia)
Andrew Geddes
CityPR
Tel: +61 (02) 9267 4511
Media (International)
Sue Charles/Gemma Harris
Instinctif Partners
Tel: +44 (0)20 7866 7860
E: recce@instinctif.com
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