Company: CERO
Filing Date: 2025-05-27
Form Type: POS AM
Source: 0001213900-25-047469
Chunk: 175

Company: CERO THERAPEUTICS HOLDINGS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-05-27
Form: POS AM
Chunk 175
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 issues a non-binding patentability opinion which can be used to evaluate the chances of success for the national applications in foreign countries prior to having to incur the filing fees. Although a PCT application does not issue as a patent, it allows the applicant to seek protection in any of the member states through national-phase patent applications. At the end of the period of 30 months from the first priority date of the provisional patent application, separate national phase patent applications can be pursued in any of the PCT member states either by direct national filing, or in some cases, by filing through a regional patent organization, such as the European Patent Office. The PCT system delays expenses, allows a limited evaluation of the chances of success for national/regional patent applications, and enables substantial savings where applications are abandoned within the first thirty months of filing. For all patent applications, we determine claiming strategy on a case-by-case basis. Advice of counsel and our business model and needs are always considered. We continuously reassess the number and type of patent applications, as well as the scope of our patent claims to pursue coverage and value for our processes and compositions, given existing patent office rules and regulations. Further, claims may be modified during patent prosecution to meet our intellectual property and business needs. We have sought patent protection in the United States and various international jurisdictions related to the CER-1236 T cell technology platform and its constructs, as well as their use as individual cellular compositions and product candidates targeting specific diseases. We also intend to seek patent protection related to the processes and materials used in CER-1236 T cell expression as well as its use in combination therapies. As of April 8, 2025, our patent portfolio comprises nine different patent families filed in various jurisdictions worldwide. These patent families include two issued patents in the United States, one of which relates to CER-1236; two allowed U.S. applications, which both relate to CER-1236; nine pending U.S. applications; thirteen issued patents in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, China, Japan, Hong Kong, and Mexico; and thirty-one pending applications in Canada, China, Europe, Hong Kong, Japan, and Korea. These patents and applications, if and when issued, are projected to expire from 2037 to 2042, absent any available patent term adjustments or extensions. We intend to pursue, when possible, further composition, method of use, dosing, formulation, and other patent protection directed to our current and new product candidates. We