CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALNY), a leading RNAi therapeutics company, announced today that the German Patent Office has granted a patent (DE 10080167 or “’167 patent”) for the Kreutzer-Limmer I patent series. The newly granted patent includes 52 claims broadly covering medicaments comprising small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), the molecules that mediate RNAi, as well as medical uses of siRNAs. The covered siRNAs are 15 to 49 nucleotide pairs in length. The new Kreutzer-Limmer patent extends the worldwide scope for issued claims covering siRNA technology to Germany, the largest national pharmaceutical market of the European Union (EU).
