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): April 15, 2020

 

VIVEVE MEDICAL, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

Delaware

  

1-11388

  

04-3153858

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation)

  

(Commission File Number)

  

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

 

  

  

  

345 Inverness Drive South, Building B, Suite 250

Englewood, Colorado

  

80112

(Address of principal executive offices)

  

(Zip Code)

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (720) 696-8100

 

 

 

 Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

 

Title of each class

Trading symbol(s)

Name of each exchange on which

registered

Common Stock

VIVE

Nasdaq Capital Market

 

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Emerging growth company     ☐

 

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Item 8.01.

 Other Events.

 

On April 15, 2020, Viveve Medical, Inc. (the “Company”) issued a press release entitled “Viveve Resubmits U.S. Investigational Device Exemption to FDA to Conduct PURSUIT Trial for Improvement of Stress Urinary Incontinence.” A copy of the Company’s press release is filed as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein for reference.

 

 

  

Item 9.01.

Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(d) Exhibits

 

Exhibit

No.

  

Description

  

  

99.1

 

   Press Release issued by the Company on April 15, 2020, furnished herewith.

 

 

 

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.

 

Date: April 15, 2020 

Viveve Medical, Inc.

 

  

  

By:  

/s/ Scott Durbin

  

  

  

Scott Durbin 

  

  

  

Chief Executive Officer

  

 

 

Exhibit 99.1

 

Viveve Resubmits U.S. Investigational Device Exemption to FDA to Conduct New PURSUIT Trial for

Improvement of Stress Urinary Incontinence

 

Proposed pivotal trial reinforces the company’s strategic pursuit of label expansion for Cryogen-cooled,

Monopolar Radiofrequency (CMRF) technology in SUI indication

 

 

ENGLEWOOD, CO – April 15, 2020 – Viveve Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ: VIVE), a medical technology company focused on women’s intimate health, announced today that the company has resubmitted its Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for approval to begin a stress urinary incontinence (SUI) multicenter, randomized, double-blinded, sham-controlled trial now entitled, PURSUIT - Prospective U.S. Radiofrequency SUI Trial. The trial is designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of Viveve’s CMRF treatment versus an inert sham tip for the improvement of SUI in women.

 

Following the original IDE submission to conduct a U.S. SUI trial, Viveve completed multiple rounds of discussions with the FDA. Based on these discussons, the resubmitted IDE addresses specific protocol requests and provides positive results from additional in vivo animal safety testing requested by the FDA.

 

The results of the LIBERATE-International SUI study, reported in August of 2019, demonstrated significant and durable improvement across all study endpoints, including nearly an 80% reduction in leakage as measured by one-hour Pad Weight Test at six months. As reported however, patients in the sham arm of the study (who received less than 1 joule/cm2 of RF and cryogen cooling) also demonstrated significant improvement. Based on a significant indiction of efficacy in the treatment arm, Viveve rapidly launched a short-term 3-arm SUI feasibility trial, utilizing a completely inert sham tip, under an approved Investigational Testing Application by the Canadian Ministry of Health. Initiated in January of 2020, the SUI feasibility trial completed enrollment in March, and is targeted for readout in late summer of this year. If positive, the results of the SUI feasibility trial could support the launch of the pivotal PURSUIT trial in the U.S. for the improvement of SUI in women.

 

“We are enthusiastic about the progress we have achieved in our SUI clinical development program. It is our steadfast belief that availability of a non-invasive single session Viveve CMRF treatment could benefit the estimated 25-30 million women worldwide who suffer from the SUI medical condition,” said Scott Durbin, chief executive officer of Viveve.

 

“With the expected readout from our SUI feasibility trial and the potential for FDA clearance to conduct the U.S. PURSUIT trial, Viveve has several important events pending for late summer 2020. Positive trial results, and achievement of FDA IDE approval, will enable us to continue our course to potentially obtain global label expansion of our CMRF technology for the treatment of SUI in women,” Mr. Durbin concluded.

 

About the U.S. SUI Trial

 

PURSUIT is intended to be a randomized, double-blinded, and sham-controlled trial with enrollment of approximately 240 subjects at up to 25 study sites in the United States. Subjects will be randomized in a 2:1 ratio for active and sham treatments.

 

The primary efficacy endpoint is intended to be the 1-hour Pad Weight Test at 12 months post-treatment. The study design includes secondary endpoints assessed by the 3-day bladder voiding diary and Quality of Life and SUI benefits as measured by the Urogenital Distress Inventory-6 (UDI-6), Incontinence Quality of Life (I-QOL), and International Consultation on Incontinence Modular Questionnaire-Urinary Incontinence Short Form (ICIQ-UI-SF). Subject safety will be monitored throughout the study.

 

 

 

About Viveve

 

Viveve Medical, Inc. is a medical technology company focused on women's intimate health. Viveve is committed to advancing new solutions to improve women's overall well-being and quality of life. The internationally patented Viveve® System incorporates CMRF technology to uniformly deliver volumetric heating while gently cooling surface tissue to generate neocollagenesis in a single in-office session. In the United States, the Viveve System is cleared by the FDA for use in general surgical procedures for electrocoagulation and hemostasis. International regulatory approvals and clearances have been received for vaginal laxity and/or improvement in sexual function indications in more than 50 countries.

 

For more information visit Viveve's website at www.viveve.com.

 

Safe Harbor Statement

 

All statements in this press release that are not based on historical fact are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. While management has based any forward-looking statements included in this press release on its current expectations, the information on which such expectations were based may change. These forward-looking statements rely on a number of assumptions concerning future events and are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are outside of our control, which could cause actual results to materially differ from such statements. Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to, the fluctuation of global economic conditions, the impact of the novel coronavirus termed COVID-19 on our clinical development and regulatory review and clearances and on the manufacturing, placements and patient utilization of our Viveve Systems, the performance of management and our employees, the outcome of our assessment of our organization and cost structure, our ability to obtain financing, our evaluation of strategic alternatives, our ability to obtain approval or clearance for sale of our medical device for all indications sought, competition, general economic conditions and other factors that are detailed in our periodic and current reports available for review at www.sec.gov. Furthermore, we operate in a highly competitive and rapidly changing environment where new and unanticipated risks may arise. Accordingly, investors should not place any reliance on forward-looking statements as a prediction of actual results. We disclaim any intention to, and undertake no obligation to, update or revise forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that subsequently occur or of which we hereafter become aware, unless required by law.

 

Viveve is a registered trademark of Viveve, Inc.

 

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