Company: PGEN
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001356090-25-000007
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Company: PRECIGEN, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 36
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, know-how and trade secret protections. We seek patent protection in the United States and in other countries for our inventions, and we develop and protect our know-how and trade secrets relating to our platform technologies, as well as to our pipeline products including those of our subsidiaries and collaborators.

For instance, we pursue protection to switch technologies, gene delivery technologies, and genetic componentry related to our pipeline products. In addition, we seek patents covering specific collaborator's products.

We focus our intellectual property on aspects of our platforms and technologies that provide for the design and creation of cells, vectors and components for our pipeline and the pipelines of our collaborators, as well as technologies directed to improve delivery and expression of our pipeline products.

Our success depends, in part, upon our ability to obtain patents and maintain adequate protection for our intellectual property relating to our technologies and product pipeline. We have adopted a strategy of seeking patent protection in the United States and in other jurisdictions globally as we deem appropriate under the circumstances, with respect to certain of the technologies used in or relating to our technologies and product pipeline. For instance, where we believe appropriate, we have counterpart patents and patent applications in other jurisdictions, such as Australia, Canada, China, Europe, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Japan, Korea, and South Africa. In the future, we may file in these or additional jurisdictions as deemed appropriate for the protection of our technologies.

As of December 31, 2024, we owned or in-licensed patents in the United States and have pending United States patent applications relating to various aspects of our platforms and technologies, and we have pursued counterpart patents and patent applications in other jurisdictions around the world, as we have deemed appropriate. We continue to actively develop our portfolio through the filing of new patent applications, provisional and continuations or divisionals relating to our advancing technologies, methods and products as we and our collaborators deem appropriate.

We work to maintain protection for our key technologies including: our various switch technologies, with a last to expire patent currently in 2039; our portfolio around various gene delivery technologies and their use, with a last to expire patent in 2046; and our portfolio around various genetic componentry such as specialized vectors containing these genetic componentry and their use, with a last to expire patent in 2044. Although we have no certainty that these patents will not be subject to challenge 

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in the future, as of this filing, there are currently no material contested proceedings and/or third-party claims with respect to any of these patent portfolios.

Additionally