Canadian Intellectual Property Office Grants Broad Patent for the Use of Catalyst Pharmaceutical Partners’s Vigabatrin/CPP-109 for the Prevention of Addiction in Pain Management

CORAL GABLES, Fla., Dec. 9, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Catalyst Pharmaceutical Partners, Inc. (Nasdaq:CPRX) today announced that the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) granted to Brookhaven Science Associates/Brookhaven National Laboratory (Brookhaven) a patent for the use of vigabatrin for the prevention of addiction in pain management.