0001144204-19-002490.txt : 20190124 0001144204-19-002490.hdr.sgml : 20190124 20190123213514 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001144204-19-002490 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20190123 ITEM INFORMATION: Other Events FILED AS OF DATE: 20190124 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20190123 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000850261 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SERVICES-COMMERCIAL PHYSICAL & BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH [8731] IRS NUMBER: 330344842 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-36150 FILM NUMBER: 19538531 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 4955 DIRECTORS PLACE CITY: SAN DIEGO STATE: CA ZIP: 92121 BUSINESS PHONE: 858-203-4100 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 4955 DIRECTORS PLACE CITY: SAN DIEGO STATE: CA ZIP: 92121 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: QUIKBYTE SOFTWARE INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703 8-K 1 tv511489_8k.htm 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): January 23, 2019

SORRENTO THERAPEUTICS, INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

Delaware

001-36150

33-0344842

(State or Other Jurisdiction

of Incorporation)

(Commission

File Number)

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

4955 Directors Place

San Diego, CA 92121

(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (858) 203-4100

N/A

(Former Name, or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

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Item 8.01. Other Information.

Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. (“Scilex”), a subsidiary of Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc., recently executed a non-binding term sheet for the rights to ZTlido® (lidocaine medicated plaster 1.8%) in certain European countries with a major European pharmaceutical company. After discussions with such potential partner, Scilex also intends to withdraw its Marketing Authorization Application (“MAA”) for ZTlido® for the treatment of pain associated with post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN), and notified the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency in the United Kingdom (the application's Reference Member State) on January 23, 2019 of such intent. Scilex submitted its MAA in November 2017 through a hybrid regulatory pathway via the Decentralized Procedure. Scilex plans to resubmit the MAA in collaboration with such partner in the near future.

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.

	SORRENTO THERAPEUTICS, INC.

Date: January 23, 2019	By:	/s/ Henry Ji, Ph.D.
		Name: Henry Ji, Ph.D.
		Title: President and Chief Executive Officer