UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): August 20, 2015

 

Transgenomic, Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

 

Delaware 000-30975 91-1789357

(State or Other Jurisdiction of

Incorporation) 

(Commission

File Number)

(IRS Employer

Identification No.) 

 

12325 Emmet Street, Omaha, NE 68164

(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (402) 452-5400

 

N/A

(Former Name, or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

 

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Item 8.01. Other Events.

 

On August 20, 2015, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (the “USPTO”) delivered to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (“DFCI”), the licensor of ICE-COLD PCR Portfolio patents to Transgenomic, Inc. (“Transgenomic”), a Notice of Intent to Issue Ex Parte Reexamination Certificate (the “Notice”) with respect to DFCI’s U.S. Patent No. 8,455,190, entitled “Enrichment of a Target Sequence” (the “190 Patent”). Pursuant to the Notice, the USPTO notified DFCI that it has closed prosecution on the merits of the 190 Patent after finding the original claims of the Patent and six new claims not obvious and not anticipated by the cited prior art. DFCI informed Transgenomic that it expects to receive a reexamination certificate for the 190 Patent in due course. In 2014, the USPTO issued an Ex Parte Reexamination Certificate for U.S. Patent No. 8,623,603, entitled “Full cold-PCR enrichment with reference blocking sequence” (the “603 Patent”). Transgenomic currently holds an exclusive license under the 190 Patent and the 603 Patent from DFCI to develop and commercialize COLD-PCR, ICE COLD-PCR and Multiplexed ICE COLD-PCR technology.

 

 

 

SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

  Transgenomic, Inc.  
       
Date: September 16, 2015  By:   /s/ Paul Kinnon  
    Paul Kinnon  
    President and Chief Executive Officer