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03/01/2012  Actavis US first to market with Clobetasol shampoo and lotion news archive
Actavis has begun shipping Clobetasol propionate shampoo and Clobetasol propionate lotion, generic equivalents to Galderma's Clobex shampoo and Clobex topical lotion...
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03/01/2012  Regeneron announces settlement of patent litigation with genentech for U.S. ophthalmic sales of Eylea [aflibercept] injection news archive
Regeneron pharmaceuticals today announced that the company has entered into a non-exclusive license and partial settlement agreement with Genentech, a member of the Roche Group relating to U.S. ophthalmic sales of Eylea (aflibercept) injection...
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05/01/2012  Lilly, Ironwood, Mattel, Celgene: Intellectual Property news archive
Eli Lilly & Co. sued Biogen Idec Inc. in a London court to revoke a European patent on a potential treatment for immune-system diseases...
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09/01/2012  Mylan confirms first-to-file patent challenge relating to Actoplus Met XR tablets news archive
Mylan Inc. today confirmed that the company has been sued by Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, Watson Pharmaceuticals and Andrx Labs in connection with the filing of an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Pioglitazone Hydrochloride and Extended-release Metformin Hydrochloride tablets...
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09/01/2012  Hospira announces start of U.S. phase III biosimilar EPO clinical program news archive
Hospira, the world's leading provider of injectable drugs and infusion technologies, today announced enrollment of the first patient in a Phase III U.S. clinical program for its biosimilar erythropoietin...
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10/01/2012  Wockhardt launches generic version of rhinitis drug Flonase nasal spray news archive
Pharmaceutical and biotechnology major Wockhardt has received final approval from the United States Food & Drug Administration for marketing 50 mcg nasal spray of Fluticasone which is used in treatment of allergic rhinitis...
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10/01/2012  Sumagen initiates clinical testing of Omnia manufactured HIV vaccine news archive
Biologics drug development and manufacturing services provider Omnia Biologics today announced that its customer Sumagen will begin clinical trials of their revolutionary HIV vaccine design...
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11/01/2012  Amerigen and Fosun Omni enter into collaboration agreement for the development of generic oral controlled release products news archive
Amerigen and the Fosun Omni today announced they had entered into a collaboration agreement regarding the development of generic oral controlled release products...
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11/01/2012  Amerigen and VIWA today jointly announce the signing of a memorandum of understanding news archive
Amerigen Pharmaceuticals Limited and VIWA Pharmaceutical Company Limited today jointly announce the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) setting out their intention to establish a joint venture to develop and register a range of branded generic medicines for sale in China...
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12/01/2012  Prasco launches authorized generic of Shire's Carbatrol news archive
Prasco Laboratories announced today it has entered into an agreement with Shire for the distribution in the U.S. of the authorized generic version of Carbatrol (Carbamazepine) extended-release capsules...
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12/01/2012  Perrigo wins summary judgment in generic Mucinex case news archive
Perrigo Company announced today that the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan has granted summary judgment in its favour in patent litigation involving Guaifenesin extended-release tablets, a generic version of Mucinex tablets...
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13/01/2012  Biosimilars: the next big thing news archive
As a large number of branded biopharmaceuticals/biologics are slated to lose patent protection in the US and other markets, generic companies like Hospira, Inc., Teva Pharmaceuticals and Sandoz, the generic arm of Novartis, are stepping up their R&D; expenses to manufacture biosimilars/biogenerics which are cheaper generic alternatives to expensive biopharmaceuticals...
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17/01/2012  Alnylam throws legal punch in patent fight with RNAi tech partner Tekmira news archive
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals has fired the latest round - this time in federal court - in an ongoing patent feud with development partner Tekmira Pharmaceuticals over siRNA and lipid nanoparticle drug delivery technology...
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18/01/2012  Teva UK launches generic glaucoma drops news archive
Teva announced wednesday that its subsidiary Teva UK would be launching the generic version of Latanoprost eye drops for the treatment of glaucoma...
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18/01/2012  Watson Launches Generic Yaz news archive
Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that its subsidiary Watson Pharma, Inc. has launched Vestura, a generic version of Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s Yaz oral contraceptive product...
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19/01/2012  Mylan launches innovative version of antiepileptic drug Levetiracetam news archive
Mylan Inc. today announced that its Mylan Institutional business has launched Levetiracetam in Sodium Chloride Injection, 500 mg/100 mL, 1000 mg/100 mL and 1500 mg/100 mL, for intravenous use...
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20/01/2012  Glenmark Generics receives two oral contraceptives product approval from the USFDA news archive
Glenmark Generics Inc., USA, a subsidiary of Glenmark Generics Ltd, today announced they have been granted final approval for two abbreviated new drug applications by the United States Food and Drug Administration...
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23/01/2012  The Medicines Company settles Angiomax [Bivalirudin] patent litigations with APP Pharmaceuticals news archive
The Medicines Company today announced that it has settled the lawsuits filed by MDCO in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware relating to the Abbreviated New Drug Application filed by APP Pharmaceuticals, LLC for a generic version of Angiomax...
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23/01/2012  Perrigo confirms filing for generic version of Astepro nasal spray and announcement of patent infringement laswsuit by Meda Pharmaceuticals news archive
Perrigo announced that it has filed with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration an Abbreviated New Drug Application for Azelastine hydrochloride nasal spray and has notified Meda Pharmaceuticals, the owner of the New Drug Application of its filing...
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23/01/2012  Depomed receives notice of Paragraph IV certification against patents for Gralise news archive
Depomed, today announced that it has received a Paragraph IV certification notice from Actavis advising Depomed that Actavis has filed an Abbreviated New Drug Application with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration seeking approval to market a generic version of Gralise (Gabapentin), 300 mg and 600 mg tablets...
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24/01/2012  Watson acquires Ascent Pharmahealth for AU$375 million news archive
Watson Pharmaceuticals, announced that it has acquired Ascent Pharmahealth, the Australia and Southeast Asia generic pharmaceutical business of Strides Arcolab, for AU$375 million in cash...
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25/01/2012  Latanoprost eye drops from Actavis launched in European markets news archive
Actavis Group has launched Latanoprost eye drops in seven major European markets, immediately after the patents expired in January...
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25/01/2012  Macoven Pharmaceuticals, LLC named in suit for patent violation and Lanham act violation news archive
Three plaintiffs filed a complaint against defendant, Macoven Pharmaceuticals, for patent infringement and false advertising...
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26/01/2012  Watson confirms court stays preliminary injunction news archive
Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc., today confirmed that the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has granted Watson and Amphastar Pharmaceuticals, Inc's request for a stay of the preliminary injunction preventing the companies from marketing or selling Amphastar's Enoxaparin Sodium Injection, a generic equivalent to Sanofi-aventis' Lovenox...
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26/01/2012  Watson reaches settlement with Mallinckrodt over Exalgo news archive
Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that its subsidiary, Watson Laboratories, Inc.- Florida has reached a settlement with Mallinckrodt Inc. on outstanding patent litigation related to Watson's generic versions of Mallinckrodt's Exalgo (Hydromorphone Hydrochloride Extended-Release ) tablets...
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30/01/2012  Lannett receives FDA approval from Hydrochlorothiazide capsules news archive
Lannett Company, Inc. today announced it has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of its Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for Hydrochlorothiazide Capsules, 12.5 mg...
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31/01/2012  Hi-Tech Pharmacal receives final approval for Lorazepam oral concentrate news archive
Hi-Tech Pharmacal Co., Inc., a specialty pharmaceuticals company, announced today that the US Food and Drug Administration, (FDA) granted final approval for the Company's Abbreviated New Drug Application, (ANDA) for Lorazepam oral concentrate...
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31/01/2012  Lannett receives FDA approval for ANDA supplement for Phentermine HCl capsules news archive
Lannett Company, Inc. today announced that it has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of its supplemental Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for Phentermine HCl capsules...
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31/01/2012  European Commission orders Italy to drop patent linkage delaying generics news archive
The European Commission has issued a formal request to Italy to remove linkage between patents and generic medicines authorisation that it says is causing delays in generics reaching the market...
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