MUMBAI, India, Aug. 8 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517070021 A) filed by Merck Patent Gmbh, Darmstadt, Germany, on July 23, for 'vhh anti-protac antibodies and complexes.'

Inventor(s) include Rieker, Marcel; Jaeger, Sebastian; Rasche, Nicolas; Koenning, Doreen; Schroeter, Christian; Desislava, Yanakieva; Schneider, Hendrik; and Evers, Andreas.

The application for the patent was published on Aug. 8, under issue no. 32/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to mono or bi-specific antibodies, or antibody fragments or fusion proteins thereof, capable of binding to the VHL ligand VH032 (or a derivative thereof) degrading moiety (degro...