SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported): May 4, 2012
ORGANOVO HOLDINGS, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
| Delaware | 000-54621 | 27-1488943 | ||
| (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation) |
(Commission File Number) |
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) | ||
| 5871 Oberlin Drive, Suite 150, San Diego, CA |
92121 | |||
| (Address of principal executive offices) | (Zip Code) | |||
(858) 550-9994
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)
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Item 8.01 Other Events
In March 2009, Organovo Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”), through its wholly-owned subsidiary Organovo, Inc., obtained a world-wide exclusive license to a suite of intellectual property owned by the University of Missouri-Columbia, including a patent application titled “Self-Assembling Multicellular Bodies and Methods of Producing a Three-Dimensional Biological Structure Using the Same.” The Company received official notification that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (the “USPTO”) issued a patent (No. 8,143,055) for the above mentioned patent application. The patent provides the Company with intellectual property rights to create cellular aggregates, to use cellular aggregates to create engineered tissue, and to employ cellular aggregates to create engineered tissue with no scaffold present.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| ORGANOVO HOLDINGS, INC. | ||||||
| Date: May 4, 2012 | By: | /s/ Barry Michaels | ||||
| Name: | Barry Michaels | |||||
| Title: | Chief Financial Officer | |||||