CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:SRPT), a developer of innovative RNA-targeted therapeutics, today announced that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a decision in the patent interference proceeding (Interference No. 106,013) concerning methods for treating Duchenne muscular dystrophy with certain exon 51 skipping oligonucleotides claimed in BioMarin’s pending U.S. Patent Application No. 14/198,992 and Sarepta’s granted U.S. Patent No. 8,486,907. The PTAB has not yet issued a decision in the two pending composition of matter patent interference proceedings relating to (i) the exon 51 skipping oligonucleotides underlying the methods that are the subject of this decision (Interference No. 106,008) or (ii) the exon 53 skipping oligonucleotides (Interference No. 106,007).
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