Ensemble Discovery’s intellectual property estate includes patents and trade secrets. Our patent estate includes the patent families that Ensemble exclusively licensed from Harvard University that include the DNA-Programmed Chemistry™ (DPC™) platform technology invented in Professor David Liu’s lab at Harvard. 

Our patent estate also includes numerous patent applications filed by Ensemble that protect our inventions directed at various improvements and applications of the DPC technology in the discovery and development of novel therapeutic and diagnostic agents. 

The US and European patent offices have issued three patents that are related to our core DPC technology.

Issued or Granted

  • US Patent No. 7,070,928 B1 PDF (5.9 MB)
    US 7,070,928 includes 71 claims and broadly relates to methods for performing synthesis using nucleic acid-templated reactions.
  • US Patent No. 7,223,545 B1 PDF (5.7 MB)
    US 7,223,545 includes 12 claims and is related to methods for making compounds from small molecule scaffolds and decorating them with various building blocks by nucleic acid-templated reactions.
  • European Patent No. 1,423,400 B1 PDF (1.6 MB)
    EP 1,423,400 B1 includes 67 claims and broadly relates to methods for performing synthesis using nucleic acid-templated reactions.

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