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SEC Company Response from NEKTAR THERAPEUTICS (NKTR) (CIK 0000906709) (NKTR) — Jan 14, 2009

NEKTAR THERAPEUTICS (NKTR) (CIK 0000906709)
Date: Jan. 14, 2009 · CIK: 0000906709 · Accession: 0001144204-09-002006

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File numbers found in text: 000-24006

Referenced dates: December 10, 2008

Date
Jan. 14, 2009
Author
the Comment Letter.
Form
CORRESP
Company
NEKTAR THERAPEUTICS (NKTR) (CIK 0000906709)

Letter

Securities and Exchange Commission Division of Corporate Finance Washington, D.C. 20549 Attention: Nandini Acharya, Esq. Re: Nektar Therapeutics. -- Form 10-K for the Year Ended December 31, 2007 (File No. 000-24006)

Dear Ms. Acharya:

This request is in relation to the letter dated December 10, 2008 (the “Comment Letter”), including comments from the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission to the Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007 (File No. 000-24006) filed by Nektar Therapeutics, a Delaware corporation, on February 29, 2008.

We respectfully request an extension to January 23, 2009 to provide a response to the Comment Letter.

Please do not hesitate to call the undersigned at (650) 620-5990 or Jennifer A. DePalma, Esq. of O’Melveny & Myers LLP, legal counsel to Nektar Therapeutics, at (650) 473-2670, regarding this matter.

Sincerely,
/s/
Gil M. Labrucherie

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    Nektar
Therapeutics

    201
Industrial Road

    San
Carlos, California 94070

    Sender
Contact Information

    P: (650)
620-5990

    F: (650)
620-5360

    January
14, 2009

    VIA FACSIMILE AND U.S.
MAIL

    Securities
and Exchange Commission

    Division
of Corporate Finance

    Washington,
D.C.  20549

    Attention:  Nandini
Acharya, Esq.

                  Re:

                  Nektar Therapeutics. -- Form 10-K for the Year
      Ended December 31, 2007 (File No.
  000-24006)

    Dear Ms.
Acharya:

    This
request is in relation to the letter dated December 10, 2008 (the “Comment Letter”), including
comments from the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission to the Form
10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007 (File No. 000-24006) filed by Nektar
Therapeutics, a Delaware corporation, on February 29, 2008.

    We
respectfully request an extension to January 23, 2009 to provide a response to
the Comment Letter.

    Please do
not hesitate to call the undersigned at (650) 620-5990 or Jennifer A. DePalma,
Esq. of O’Melveny & Myers LLP, legal counsel to Nektar Therapeutics, at
(650) 473-2670, regarding this matter.

                        Sincerely,

                        /s/
      Gil M. Labrucherie

                        Gil
      M. Labrucherie

                        Senior
      Vice President, General Counsel &

                        Secretary
      of Nektar
Therapeutics

                cc:

                Howard
      W. Robin, President and Chief Executive Officer of Nektar
      Therapeutics

                Sam
      Zucker, Esq., O’Melveny & Myers LLP

                Jennifer
      A. DePalma, Esq., O’Melveny & Myers
LLP