Current Report Filing (8-k)

 

UNITED STATES

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):  December 18, 2017

 

 

Health Discovery Corporation

(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

 

 

Georgia	333-62216	74-3002154
(State of incorporation)	(Commission File Number)	(IRS Employer Identification No.)

 

 

4243 Dunwoody Club Drive, Suite 202, Atlanta GA  30350

(Address of principal executive offices / Zip Code)

 

 

[phone]

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

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 ITEM 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure

 

As previously disclosed, Health Discovery Corporation (the “Company”) submitted Patent Application Number 14/754,434 (the “Patent”) to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”).

 

The Company is pleased to announce that the USPTO has issued a Notice of Allowance of this Patent covering the four-gene prostate cancer test developed using its proprietary SVM-RFE technology.  The allowed claims cover a method for screening for and treating prostate cancer by measuring expression levels of the four genes within a patient sample compared to one or more reference genes, and generating a prediction score based on the averaged relative expression levels.   This news is particularly welcome after encountering the significant barriers to patenting of biomarkers that had been raised by the U.S. Supreme Court’s controversial decisions in  Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories  and  Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics .   This Patent will complement the Company’s already issued European Patent that covers similar claims. 

 

The Company believes that this Patent demonstrates the ability of the Company’s proprietary technology in the discovery and validation of biomarkers for diseases. The Company believes this same method can be applied to numerous different diseases and will explore opportunities with partners to deploy these same methods using it proprietary technology in biomarker discovery.

 

ITEM 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits

 

	(a)	Not applicable

	(b)	Not applicable

	(c)	Not applicable

(d)

Exhibits

 

None.

 

 

 

 

 

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 thereunto duly authorized.

 

 

	HEALTH DISCOVERY CORPORATION
Dated:  December 22, 2017	By:	/s/ George H. McGovern, III
		George H. McGovern, III Chairman & Chief Executive Officer