Company: GLPG
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001558370-25-003806
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Company: GALAPAGOS NV
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4
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 an exclusive license and supply agreement on the materials to produce and use our GLPG5301 product candidate.

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GLPG3667 product candidate: We have a granted U.S. patent application, and one pending U.S. patent application. We have one patent granted via the European Patent Office (EPO) and one pending patent application at the EPO; as well as further granted patents inter alia in Japan and Australia. In addition, we have counterpart foreign patent applications that are pending in Canada, China and other foreign countries claiming GLPG3667 compositions of matter and methods of treatment using GLPG3667. Patents, if any, that issue based on this pending patent application are estimated to expire in 2038, not including any potential extensions for the marketed product that may be available via supplementary protection certificates or patent term extensions. We also have one U.S. pending patent application as well as other foreign jurisdictions claiming dosage regimen, and any patent, if granted is estimated to expire in 2042. Finally, we have four pending applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) disclosing solid forms, metabolites, and/or methods for treating inflammatory disorders using GLPG3667; any patents, if granted, based on these patent applications are estimated to expire in 2043.
The term of individual patents depends upon the legal term of the patents in the countries in which they are obtained. In most countries in which we file, the patent term is 20 years from the date of filing the application. In the United States, a patent’s term may be lengthened by patent term adjustment, which compensates a patentee for administrative delays by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, or USPTO, in granting a patent, or may be shortened if a patent is terminally disclaimed over an earlier-filed co-owned patent. In addition, in certain instances, a patent term can be extended to recapture a portion of the term effectively lost as a result of the FDA regulatory review period. However, the restoration period cannot be longer than five years and the total patent term including the restoration period must not exceed 14 years following FDA approval. In certain foreign jurisdictions similar extensions as compensation for regulatory delays are also available. The actual protection afforded by a patent varies on a claim by claim and country to country basis for each applicable product and depends upon many factors, including the type of patent, the scope of its coverage, the availability of regulatory related extensions, the availability of legal remedies in a particular country, and