Apollon Formularies has announced the acquisition of four patents previously owned by AI Pharmaceuticals, covering a number of treatments for cancers and inflammation using cannabis and mushroom compositions.
Apollon Formularies plc, a UK based international pharmaceutical company has acquired intellectual property from AI Pharmaceuticals Ltd, a wholly-owned Jamaican subsidiary of Aion in what Apollon is calling a “win-win” for both companies. Under the terms of the Agreement, Apollon will acquire four patents and all associated supporting data including the pre-clinical testing results from BIOENSIS.
The patents include: ‘Compositions and Methods for Treatment of Cancers’, ‘Compositions and Methods for Treatment of Inflammation, ‘Methods for Treatment of Human Cancers using Mushroom Compositions’ and ‘Methods for Treatment of Human Cancers using Cannabis Compositions’.
In a statement, Stephen Barnhill, MD, Chairman and CEO of Apollon Formularies said: “This intellectual property acquisition is a win-win for both companies. Apollon’s Jamaican affiliate, Apollon Formularies Jamaica Limited, has Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) issued medical cannabis licenses for processing, retail therapeutic sales, and research and development which allows performing human clinical trials with approval of the Ministry of Health (MOH) and cultivation. Apollon’s CLA licenses also currently allow the export of these products from Jamaica to countries globally allowing legal import.
Dr. Barnhill is also the Executive Chairman of Aion and serves as a director and executive officer of AI Pharmaceuticals.
Apollon, which is trading on the Aquis Stock Exchange, has purchased the patents from Aion via a cash payment of £95,957.18 and the issuing of 4,348,679 ordinary shares in the company. These shares will be subject to a complete trading restriction for a period of six months from the date of the stock transfer. After the six month restriction period, twenty percent of such stock will become eligible for trading and an additional twenty percent will be tradable at the end of each following three-month period, with all trading restrictions being fully removed at the end of eighteen months.
In addition to the cash payment and Apollon shares, Apollon will pay to Aion a royalty fee of four percent of Net Revenues on all products produced and sold globally that are derived from or based on the purchased intellectual property assets. The royalty fee shall be due from Apollon on a quarterly basis after the first commercial product sales.
“Apollon has a state-of-the art, high volume processing and manufacturing facility in Jamaica allowing production of these products. Apollon intends to immediately make these medical cannabis and medicinal mushroom products available at Apollon’s International Cancer and Chronic Pain Institute in Kingston, Jamaica and at our CLA-licensed dispensary in Negril, Jamaica, as well as initiating human clinical trials to validate the successful results seen in the pre-clinical testing.”
AI Pharmaceuticals and Apollon Formularies Jamaica announced in May last year that the two companies had made arrangements for the testing of their respective formulations and products independently and jointly. BIOENSIS, an independent pre-clinical predictive pharmaceutical testing laboratory, previously evaluated the effect of mushroom and cannabis formulations on multiple cancer cell lines in 3D cell cultures.
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