Amarin Announces Notice of Allowance for Additional U.S. Patent Covering AMR101

Amarin Corporation plc AMRN announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has published notification of a Notice of Allowance for U.S. Patent Application Serial Number 12/769,885 titled "Highly Stable EPA in a Capsule." A Notice of Allowance is issued after the USPTO makes a determination that a patent can be granted from an application. The issued patent would cover a stable pharmaceutical composition of AMR101 comprising at least 95% EPA and would have a patent term that would expire no earlier than in 2030. "The issuance of this Notice of Allowance follows the recent issuance of a pharmaceutical composition patent (U.S. Patent No. 8,188,146) covering EPA with no DHA in a capsule," stated Joseph Zakrzewski, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Amarin. "This patent application is part of our expanding patent portfolio for Amarin covering AMR101. Amarin is currently prosecuting greater than 25 pending U.S. patent applications with the goal of protecting the commercial potential of AMR101 to 2030 and beyond."