Intellectual Property

VaxDesign owns or has exclusively licensed twelve pending United States patent applications claiming the MIMIC™ technology. We have filed or plan to file foreign counterparts to our U.S. applications in major market countries.

Published Patents and Patent Applications

  1. Artificial immune system: methods for making and use.
    US 2005 / 0282148, also published as WO 2005 / 104755.
    Warren, Fahlenkamp, Higbee, Kachurin, Li, Nguyen, Parkhill, Sanchez-Schmitz, Irvine, Randolph, Hacohen, Torbett

  2. Automatable artificial immune system (AIS).
    US 2006 / 0270029.
    Warren, Parkhill, Nguyen, Sanchez-Schmitz, Fahlenkamp, Higbee, Drake, Kachurin, Moe

  3. Automatable artificial immune system (AIS).
    US 2007 / 0141552.
    Parkhill, Nguyen, Sanchez-Schmitz, Fahlenkamp, Higbee, Drake, Kachurin, Moe, Warren

  4. In vitro mucosal tissue equivalent.
    US 2006 / 0275270, also published as WO 2007 / 106559.
    Sanchez-Schmitz, Higbee, Fahlenkamp, Warren, Drake, Tew

  5. Disease Model Incorporation into an Artificial Immune System (AIS).
    US 2007 / 0026392, also published as WO 2007 / 0144267.
    Higbee, Mishkin, Warren, Sanchez-Schmitz, Fahlenkamp, Rivard

  6. Controlling dendritic cell maturation state in the lymphoid tissue equivalent of an artificial immune system.
    US 2007 / 0015136
    Sanchez-Schmitz, Higbee, Fahlenkamp, Irvine, Warren, Drake

  7. A porous membrane device that promotes differentiation of monocytes into dendritic cells.
    WO 2007 / 076061, also published as US 2007 / 0178076
    Drake, Moe, Li, Fahlenkamp, Sanchez-Schmitz, Higbee, Parkhill, Warren

  8. In vitro germinal centers.
    WO 2007 / 075979, also published as US 2007 / 0218054
    Sukumar, El Shikh, Tew, Sanchez-Schmitz, Drake, Mosquera, Li, Kachurin, Higbee, Fahlenkamp, Warren

  9. Co-Culture Lymphoid Tissue Equivalent (LTE) for an Artificial Immune System (AIS).
    US 2007 / 0154956, also published as WO 2007 / 146334.
    Drake, Moser, Singh, Song, Mishkin, Warren

  10. Models for vaccine assessment.
    US 2008 / 0008653.
    Tew, El Shikh, Singh, Mishkin, Drake, Song, Warren

Foreign Filings

We have filed US and PCT applications and national phase applications in the major markets, typically the European Patent Office, Japan, Australia, and Canada. We file in other countries on a case-by-case basis.