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Dec 20, 2011

Pharmacyclics Inc. Receives Issue Notice of Significant Bruton's Tyrosine Kinase (BTK) Patent - PR Newswire - sacbee.com

Pharmacyclics, Inc. (Nasdaq: PCYC), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing innovative small molecule drugs for the treatment of cancer and immune mediated diseases, announced today issue notification from the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO, www.uspto.gov) of a patent entitled "Inhibitors of Bruton's Tyrosine Kinase" and specifically claiming "an inhibited tyrosine kinase comprising an irreversible BTK inhibitor having a covalent bond to a cysteine residue of a Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK)". This U.S. patent 8,088,781 is set to issue on January 3, 2012.