Twenty percent of the Zirus’s veteran workforce is devoted to patents and patent strategy. Broad protection of the Zirus platform in ways made available by the science and case law is a company mandate.

At Zirus, science drives patents and patents drive science so that money is saved and value is captured. The result is a broad, international, multilayered and constantly expanding portfolio of patents, patent applications and trade secrets to protect the Zirus assets.

The various layers of Zirus patent protection fall into several general categories including gene trap, targets, the screening of drugs to the targets, methods to prevent infection, and drugs that bind the targets and prevent viral infection. Since these categories provide independent and overlapping protection, the combination provides more certainty and value to the company.

Zirus has an extensive, multi-tier, and strategic portfolio of issued and pending patents.