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01/05/2009  Warner Chilcott Files New Lawsuit for Infringement of DORYX Patent news archive
Warner Chilcott Limited announced today that one of its subsidiaries and Mayne Pharma International Pty. Ltd. (Mayne) have filed a second lawsuit against Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Mylan Inc. (Mylan) in the District Court for the District of New Jersey for infringement of Mayne's U.S. Patent No. 6,958,161 (the '161 Patent) which covers DORYX, a tetracycline-class oral antibiotic. The lawsuit is in response to the submission of an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by Mylan requesting approval to manufacture and sell a generic version of DORYX 150 mg delayed-release tablets prior to the expiration in 2022 of the '161 Patent. Warner Chilcott previously announced, in December 2008, the filing of a lawsuit against Mylan in response to Mylan's submission of an ANDA requesting approval to manufacture and sell generic versions of DORYX 100 and 75 mg delayed-release tablets. Warner Chilcott markets and sells DORYX delayed-release tablets in 150, 100 and 75 mg strengths in the United States under a license agreement with Mayne. ...
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02/05/2009  India's Ranbaxy Recalls Antibiotics in US news archive
Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced today that it is conducting a voluntary recall of all lots of Nitrofurantoin (Monohydrate/Macrocrystals) Capsules, USP 100 mg, currently on the market in the U.S. ...
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04/05/2009  Aurobindo Pharma Gets FDA Nod for Escitalopram Oxalate news archive
Drug-maker Aurobindo Pharma said it has received tentative approval from the US drug regulator for anti-depressant tablets Escitalopram Oxalate. ...
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04/05/2009  Roxane Laboratories, Inc. Announces the Launch of Mycophenolate Mofetil 250mg Capsules and 500mg Tablets news archive
Roxane Laboratories, Inc. announced today the launch of its generic for Mycophenolate Mofetil 250mg Capsules and 500mg Tablets by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...
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04/05/2009  DRAXIMAGE's generic Sestamibi Approved for launch in USA news archive
Jubilant Organosys Ltd, headquartered in India, announced today that its subsidiary in the United States, DRAXIMAGE LLC has received US Food and Drug Administration approval for the Company's Abbreviated New Drug Application for DRAXIMAGE's generic Sestamibi....
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06/05/2009  Impax Receives Final FDA Approval for Generic Depakote Extended-Release 250mg Tablets news archive
Impax Laboratories, Inc. today confirmed that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted final approval of the Company's Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for generic version of Depakote (divalproex ER) 250mg Extended-release Tablets....
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06/05/2009  Teva Introduces Mycophenolate Mofetil Tablets and Mycophenolate Mofetil Capsules news archive
Teva Pharmaceuticals is pleased to announce the introduction and availability of Mycophenolate Mofetil Tablets and Mycophenolate Mofetil Capsules. Mycophenolate Mofetil Tablets are AB rated and bioequivalent to CellCept Tablets...
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06/05/2009  Cipla Gets Tentative USFDA Approval news archive
Major Indian pharma firm Cipla has notified that it has secured tentative approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) for its tenofovir disoproxil fumarate tablets. ...
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07/05/2009  Mylan Receives Final FDA Approvals for Generic Versions of Anti-Rejection Medication CellCept news archive
Mylan Inc. today announced that its subsidiary Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. received final approvals from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its Abbreviated New Drug Applications for Mycophenolate Mofetil Tablets, 500 mg, and Mycophenolate Mofetil Capsules, 250 mg...
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07/05/2009  Sun Pharma announces USFDA tentative approval for generic Uroxatral Extended Release tablets news archive
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. announced that USFDA has granted its subsidiary a tentative approval for its Abbreviated New Drug Application for generic Uroxatral Extended Release tablets...
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07/05/2009  Sun Pharma Announces USFDA Tentative Approval for Generic Uroxatral Extended Release Tablets news archive
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. announced that USFDA has granted its subsidiary a tentative approval for its Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for generic Uroxatral Extended Release tablets....
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08/05/2009  Indian pharma cos upbeat on biogenerics news archive
Even as the substitutability of biogeneric or biosimilar medicines with their original patented counterparts continues to be a matter of debate world over, Indian drug companies, which have introduced biogeneric products or copies of biotechnology drugs in the country, are bullish over the marketing prospects of "biogenerics" after patents expire in developed markets....
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08/05/2009  Lannett Company Receives FDA Approval for Pilocarpine HCI Tablets 7.5 mg Strength news archive
Lannett Company, Inc., a manufacturer of generic pharmaceuticals, today announced that it has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of its supplemental Abbreviated New Drug Application for Pilocarpine HCI tablets, 7.5 mg, the generic equivalent of Salagen, marketed by Eisai Pharmaceuticals...
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09/05/2009  Pfizer counters Dr Reddy's claims against its anti-smoking drug news archive
Pfizer has responded to the post-grant opposition filed by Dr Reddy's Laboratories (DRL) against its anti-smoking drug Champix. The company, on Friday, countered DRL's claims which filed the opposition in May 2008 at the Mumbai patent office ...
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11/05/2009  Lupin Settles Litigation with Wyeth for Effexor XR news archive
Lupin Ltd. announced that it has settled all ongoing Hatch-Waxman litigation relating to Venlafaxine extended release capsules, Lupin's generic version of Wyeth's antidepressant Effexor XR capsules. As per the terms of the settlement, Lupin Ltd. will be licensed under the relevant patents and would be free to commercially launch its generic product on or after 1st of June, 2011, or earlier in certain limited circumstances, but in no event earlier than January 1, 2011. ...
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11/05/2009  Pantoprazole from Actavis Launched on Patent Expiry in Germany, Ireland, Netherlands news archive
Actavis launched Pantoprazole tablets in Germany, Ireland, and the Netherlands as the patent expired on 6 May. This is Actavis Group's first own brand launch of this molecule. ...
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11/05/2009  Abbreviated New Drug Application for Fondaparinux Accepted by US Food and Drug Administration news archive
Australian drug developer, Alchemia Limited, today announced that its global manufacturing and U.S. marketing partner Dr Reddy's Laboratories has received notice of acceptance of its Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Fondaparinux Sodium...
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12/05/2009  GSK takes 16% stake in Aspen news archive
GlaxoSmithKline, the pharmaceuticals group, said it would transfer a series of medicines and manufacturing assets to Aspen Pharmacare in an innovative deal that gives it 16 per cent of the South African generic drugmaker....
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13/05/2009  Aurobindo Pharma Receives Approval for Simvastatin Tablets from TGA, Australia news archive
Aurobindo Pharma Limited is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary Aurobindo Pharma Australia Pty Ltd has received yet another approval from the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), Government of Australia for the registration of Simvastatin Tablets 5, 10, 20, 40 & 80 mg. ...
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13/05/2009  Appeals Court Upholds Procter & Gamble Patent Rights On Actonel news archive
A U.S. appeals court Wednesday upheld a lower court ruling that protected Procter & Gamble Co.'s (PG) patent rights to osteoporosis drug Actonel, which were under attack from generic competitor Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd....
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13/05/2009  FTC Position on Reverse Payments: Settlements Can Be Procompetitive news archive
Despite numerous decisions to the contrary in the courts, the FTC continues to vigorously prosecute generic and brand drug makers for entering into agreements settling patent infringement litigation in which the generic firm agrees to delay entry. During your testimony before the Committee, you suggested that you might be opposed to any drug patent settlement that included a so-called reverse payment...
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14/05/2009  Federal Circuit Affirms Denial of Preliminary Injunction Regarding Teva's Generic Protonix Tablets news archive
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. announced today that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit unanimously affirmed a September 2007 ruling, which denied a motion filed by Wyeth and Altana for a preliminary injunction related to Teva's Pantoprazole Sodium Delayed Release (DR) Tablets...
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14/05/2009  Teva Announces Approval And Launch Of Generic Urso 250 And Urso Forte news archive
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted approval for the Company's Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for Ursodiol Tablets USP, 250 mg and 500 mg. Teva's Ursodiol Tablets are the AB-rated generic equivalents of Axcan's Urso 250 and Urso Forte, which are indicated for treatment of patients with primary biliary cirrhosis. Shipment of this product has commenced....
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14/05/2009  Federal Circuit Affirms Denial of Preliminary Injunction Regarding Teva's Generic Protonix Tablets news archive
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. announced today that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit unanimously affirmed a September 2007 ruling, which denied a motion filed by Wyeth and Altana for a preliminary injunction related to Teva's Pantoprazole Sodium Delayed Release (DR) Tablets...
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14/05/2009  Lonza and Teva Announce Receipt of Regulatory Approval news archive
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. and Lonza Group Ltd. today announced that the European Commission granted antitrust approval to the joint venture between the two companies, which was originally announced on January 20, 2009...
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15/05/2009  Gilead Files 2nd Patent Suit Against Teva news archive
Gilead Sciences Inc. filed a second lawsuit in U.S. District Court in New York against Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. alleging patent infringement....
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15/05/2009  Pfizer, Others Want to Stop Copying of Lyrica news archive
Prominent drug manufacturer Pfizer is one of three companies that says it will be irreparably harmed if two other major drug makers, including Mylan Pharmaceuticals, are allowed to sell a drug used to treat fibromyalgia....
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15/05/2009  Strides Arcolab Announces 2 ANDA Approvals for Adenosine Injection USP and Meloxicam Tablets USP news archive
Strides Arcolab Limited (Strides) today announced receipt of 2 ANDA approvals....
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17/05/2009  Reckitt Benckiser Inc. v. Watson Laboratories, Inc. news archive
Infringement of U.S. Patent Nos. 6,372,252 and 6,955,821 following a Paragraph IV certification as part of Watson's filing of an ANDA ...
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18/05/2009  Genzyme sues Lupin on violating patents on Sevelamer carbonate Renvela in US news archive
India's generic maker Lupin is being sued by Genzyme Corporation of UK for alleged infringement of its patent in the United States District Court of Maryland on kidney disease drug Renvela ...
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18/05/2009  Watson Provides Update on Ferrlecit Supply and Distribution Agreement news archive
Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a leading specialty pharmaceutical company, today announced that the Swiss Chambers of Commerce Court of Arbitration has ruled that the Ferrlecit (sodium ferric gluconate complex in sucrose) supply and distribution agreements between Watson and Sanofi-aventis will expire on December 31, 2009. As a result of today's decision, Watson will continue to market and sell Ferrlecit through December 31, 2009. ...
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19/05/2009  Impax Receives FDA Approval for Generic Precose Tablets, 25 mg, 50 mg and 100 mg news archive
Impax Laboratories, Inc. today confirmed that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval of the Company's Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for generic versions of Precose Tablets (acarbose), 25 mg, 50 mg and 100 mg strengths...
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20/05/2009  Oscient Fends off New Patent Challenge news archive
Oscient Pharmaceuticals Inc. said it received notice this week that Paddock Laboratories Inc. has filed an application to make a generic version of its high-cholesteral medication ANTARA capsules....
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20/05/2009  Novartis to Buy Generic Cancer Drugs for $1.2 Billion news archive
Novartis AG agreed to buy Ebewe Pharma's injectable-drug unit for $1.2 billion in cash to gain generic copies of cancer treatments, including chemotherapy. ...
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20/05/2009  AstraZeneca Wins US Ban on Generic of Asthma Drug news archive
A U.S. court has granted an injunction that bars Apotex from selling a generic version of AstraZeneca's lucrative Pulmicort Respules asthma medicine prior to a patent infringement trial, the British drugmaker said on Wednesday....
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20/05/2009  Synthon First Generic Filer for Xyzal Oral Solution news archive
Synthon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. believes that it is the 'Single First Filer' of an ANDA with a Paragraph IV certification for the Xyzal (Levocetirizine) Oral Solution product...
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21/05/2009  Pfizer Gets Rights to 55 Generic Pills, 20 Injectibles through New Deals news archive
Pfizer, the world's largest drug maker, has acquired rights to 55 generic pills and 20 injectables for more than 70 emerging and developed markets through new deals. Pfizer Inc, has entered into a licensing pact with Indian generic injectables producer Claris Lifesciences besides expanding it present alliance with Aurobindo....
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21/05/2009  Watson Launches Gelnique-Oxybutynin chloride Gel 10%, First and Only Topical Gel for Overactive Bladder news archive
Watson Pharmaceuticals, a leader in generic and specialty branded pharmaceuticals, announced today the launch of Gelnique (oxybutynin chloride) gel 10%, first and only topical gel for the treatment of overactive bladder with symptoms of urge urinary incontinence, urgency, and frequency. ...
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21/05/2009  Taro Receives FDA Approval for Sulfacetamide Sodium Topical Suspension ANDA news archive
Taro Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. reported today that its Canadian manufacturing site has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for Sulfacetamide Sodium Topical Suspension USP, 10% lotion...
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23/05/2009  Teva settles patent suit with Cadila on API of cardiac drug Coreg news archive
Teva Pharmaceuticals, the Israel based generic major, has reportedly settled its patent litigation with the Ahmedabad-based Cadila Healthcare and its US-based subsidiary Zydus Pharmaceuticals Inc concerning the process of making carvedilol, the key ingredient in Coreg, a beta blocker used to treat high blood pressure...
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23/05/2009  Off The Agenda, Counterfeits Still Draw Attention At Health Assembly news archive
Counterfeit medicines were left off this year's truncated World Health Assembly agenda but still managed to have an impact. The contentious, intellectual property-related issue arose during a discussion on the World Health Organization's future plans, as several nations objected to a budget line referencing a programme to combat counterfeit drugs...
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24/05/2009  Daiichi Sankyo and Ranbaxy Announce Reconstitution of Ranbaxy Executive Leadership news archive
Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd. and Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited today announced that Mr. Malvinder Mohan Singh has stepped down from the positions of Chairman, CEO and Managing Director of Ranbaxy with immediate effect. Mr. Atul Sobti, currently Ranbaxy's Chief Operating Officer, has been appointed as CEO and Managing Director. Dr. Tsutomu Une, Non-executive Director of Ranbaxy, has been elected as Chairman of the Board....
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26/05/2009  Cinacalcet-Sensipar: Teva Sued Innovator for Process Patent Infringement news archive
Teva has filed patent infringement lawsuit against Innovator Company Amgen w.r.t Cinacalcet process patent infringement in Distric court for Eastern district of Pennsylvania. Generic pharma giant Teva got following process patent....
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27/05/2009  Glenmark receives tentative approval from US-FDA for cholesterol-lowering agent Ezetimibe news archive
Glenmark Generics Ltd\'s US subsidiary announced that the US Food and Drug Administration has granted tentative approval for the generic version of Schering Plough and MSP Singapore Company LLC\'s hypercholesterolemia treatment Zetia (ezetimibe)...
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29/05/2009  Key drug patent of Merck & Co. to be re-examined news archive
A reexamination of a key patent for Merck & Co.\'s (MRK) blockbuster Singulair allergy and asthma drug has been ordered by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office since a new question of patentability has been raised by a New York firm...
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29/05/2009  Mylan Receives Tentative FDA Approval for Generic Version of Singulair news archive
Mylan Inc. today announced that it has received tentative approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its Abbreviated New Drug Application for Montelukast Sodium Tablets, 10 mg...
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