INmune Bio updates on patent covering INB16, INKmune therapeutic composition

INmune Bio announced an update regarding the company’s patent covering its proprietary cell line, “INB16”, as well as the therapeutic composition comprising replication-incompetent INB16 cells known as “INKmune” and methods of treating cancer by administering INKmune, with a goal of achieving in vivo priming of natural killer cells to enhance the ability of a patient’s own NK-cells to effect cancer surveillance, recognition, and killing. In the written opinion for the international patent application titled, “HUMAN T-CELL ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA CELL LINE & APPLICATIONS FOR TREATING CANCER,” an examiner from the International Search Authority at the United States Patent & Trademark Office, authorized by the World Intellectual Property Organization under the Patent Cooperation Treaty, issued a favorable patentability opinion with respect to novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability of all claims and concluding that the application contains patentable subject matter. The application discloses and claims the novel INB16 cell line on deposit with the American Type Culture Collection, as well as compositions comprising replication incompetent INB16 cells and methods of treating cancer in patients by administering INKmune.