Company: VRCA
Filing Date: 2025-03-11
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-037172
Chunk: 27

Company: Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-11
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 27
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, Europe, India, Israel, Japan, South Korea, and Mexico covering our proprietary cantharidin formulations, applicator devices and systems comprising the formulations, and methods of using the same. Additionally, we have granted patents in Australia, China, Israel, Japan, and South Korea, as well as an allowed patent application in Canada, covering the YCANTH (VP-102) applicator. For the U.S. utility patent expected to expire on May 28, 2035, we timely filed an Application for Patent Term Extension with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, or USPTO, which if granted will extend the patent term of this patent beyond May 28, 2035. The Application for Patent Term Extension is currently under review.

We also currently have two issued United States design patents covering the design of our YCANTH (VP-102) applicator and one issued United States design patent covering the design of our proprietary ampule crush tool. The two issued U.S. design patents covering the design of our YCANTH (VP-102) applicator will expire on October 27, 2035 and July 23, 2039, and the issued United States design patent covering the design of our proprietary ampule crush tool will expire on April 11, 2038. Additionally, we have granted design patents in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Europe, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, and the United Kingdom covering the design of our proprietary ampule crush tool for use with our YCANTH (VP-102) applicator.

In addition, we currently have two United States patents covering methods of preparing and purifying cantharidin, as well as an allowed U.S. patent application covering additional methods useful in preparing cantharidin. We also have granted patents in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Europe, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Japan, South Korea, and Mexico covering methods of preparing cantharidin. Additionally, we have a granted patent in Japan covering methods of purifying cantharidin.

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As of February 6, 2025, we have nationalized seven international PCT patent applications for utility patents related to YCANTH (VP-102), six of which have been nationalized in the United States, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Europe, Israel, India, Japan, South Korea, and Mexico, and one of