UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

 

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): June 25, 2019

 

 

CRISPR THERAPEUTICS AG

(Exact Name of Company as Specified in Charter)

 

 

 

Switzerland   001-37923   Not Applicable

(State or Other Jurisdiction

of Incorporation)

 

(Commission

File Number)

 

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

Baarerstrasse 14

6300 Zug

Switzerland

+41 61 228 7800

(Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Registrant’s Principal Executive Offices)

Not applicable

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

 

 

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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of each class

 

Trading

Symbol

 

Name of each exchange

on which registered

Common Shares, CHF 0.03 par value   CRSP   NASDAQ Stock Market LLC

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

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Item 8.01

Other Events.

On June 25, 2019, CRISPR Therapeutics AG (the “Company”) received notification that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (the “USPTO”) has initiated an interference proceeding at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (the “PTAB”) between certain pending US patent applications co-owned by the University of California, the University of Vienna and Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively, the “CVC Group”) and certain patents and a patent application currently owned by the Broad Institute, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (collectively “Broad”), all of which are related to the single guide format of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing technology in eukaryotic cells. CRISPR Therapeutics has an exclusive worldwide license in the field of human therapeutics to Dr. Charpentier’s rights as a co-owner of the CVC portfolio. Specifically, the PTAB has declared Patent Interference No. 106,115 (the “’115 Interference”) between the CVC Group’s pending US Patent Application Nos. 15/947,680; 15/947,700; 15/947,718; 15/981,807; 15/981,808; 15/981,809; 16/136,159; 16/136,165; 16/136,168; and 16/136,175, and the Broad’s US Patent Nos. 8,697,359; 8,771,945; 8,795,965; 8,865,406; 8,871,445; 8,889,356; 8,895,308; 8,906,616; 8,932,814; 8,945,839; 8,993,233; 8,999,641; 9,840,713, and US Patent Application No. 14/704,551. Six (6) new US patents have issued to the CVC Group since June 2018, and none of those issued patents are involved in the ’115 Interference.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

    CRISPR THERAPEUTICS AG
Date: June 26, 2019     By:  

/s/ Samarth Kulkarni

      Samarth Kulkarni
      Chief Executive Officer
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