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Ocean Biomedical receives termination of key license agreements for alleged breaches totaling $612,581
Ocean Biomedical, Inc.
- Elkurt, Inc. terminated four Elias Agreements and one Kurtis lab license, plus a RIH license, effective June 9, 2025.
- Alleged material breaches include unpaid obligations of $612,581.16 and failure to meet development milestones.
- Ocean also failed to file an IND by June 30, 2024, for one milestone and faces three more IND deadlines by June 30, 2025.
- Brown University has initiated termination of its licenses to Elkurt, which would further cut Ocean's access to the technology.
- The notice states termination is immediate under Section 10.2.2.1 after failure to cure within 30 days.
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