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01/05/2012  Mylan, Impax win ruling in Doryx generics patent case news archive
Mylan said it began selling a generic version of the antibiotic Doryx today after a judge ruled it didn't infringe a patent held by Warner Chilcott...
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01/05/2012  Mylan announces settlement agreement for its first-to-file generic version of Nuvigil news archive
Mylan today announced that it has entered into a settlement agreement with Teva that will resolve pending patent litigation related to Nuvigil...
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01/05/2012  Pfizer and Protalix BioTherapeutics announce FDA approval of Elelyso [taliglucerase alfa] for the treatment of Gaucher disease news archive
Pfizer and Protalix BioTherapeutics announced today that the United States (U.S.) Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Elelyso (taliglucerase alfa) for injection, an enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) for the long-term treatment of adults with a confirmed diagnosis of type 1 Gaucher disease...
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01/05/2012  Filings: Pfizer settles lawsuit involving Celebrex news archive
Pfizer has settled a lawsuit filed by Brigham Young University (BYU) over development of the blockbuster painkiller Celebrex for $450 million, according to a regulatory filing Tuesday...
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02/05/2012  Sandoz infringes Hospira sedative patent, U.S. judge rules news archive
The Sandoz unit of Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG infringes a U.S. patent licensed by Hospira for the sedative Precedex...
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02/05/2012  Acella Pharmaceuticals announces approval of generic Gabapentin oral solution news archive
Acella Pharmaceuticals, a specialty pharmaceutical company, announces the approval of an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for Gabapentin...
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02/05/2012  Sandoz to acquire Fougera Pharmaceuticals, becoming the number one generic dermatology medicines company globally and in the US news archive
Novartis has signed a definitive agreement to acquire specialty dermatology generics company Fougera Pharmaceuticals...
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04/05/2012  Breckenridge signs generic agreement with Zhejiang Huahai Pharmaceuticals news archive
Breckenridge Pharmaceutical announced today that it has finalised its agreement with Zhejiang Huahai Pharmaceuticals (Huahai) to market Nevirapine tablets...
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07/05/2012  Candesartan from Actavis to 11 European countries on market formation news archive
Actavis has launched Candesartan and Candesartan HCT on many of Europe's biggest pharmaceutical markets, immediately after the patents expired...
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08/05/2012  Otsuka wins appeal ruling upholding Abilify drug patent news archive
Otsuka's pharmaceutical unit and partner Bristol-Myers Squibb won an appeals court ruling that will help ward off generic-drug competition to their schizophrenia drug Abilify until April 2015...
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09/05/2012  Watson confirms Lialda patent challenge news archive
Watson Pharmaceuticals today confirmed that its subsidiary, Watson Laboratories, filed an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seeking approval to market Mesalamine delayed-release tablets...
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10/05/2012  Cell Therapeutics' Pixuvri approved in European Union as monotherapy to treat adult patients with multiply relapsed or refractory aggressive Non-Hodgkin B-Cell Lymphomas news archive
Cell Therapeutics (CTI) today announced that it has received conditional marketing authorization from the European Commission (EC) for Pixuvri (Pixantrone) as monotherapy for the treatment of adult patients with multiply relapsed or refractory aggressive non-Hodgkin B-cell lymphomas (NHL)...
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10/05/2012  Actavis launches generic Lipitor as patents fall throughout Europe news archive
Actavis today announced the launch of Atorvastatin, the generic equivalent of Pfizer's Lipitor/Zarator the world's top selling drug...
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11/05/2012  FDA advisory committee supports approval of Gilead's once-daily Quad single tablet regimen for HIV news archive
Gilead today announced that the Antiviral Drugs Advisory Committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has voted 13 to 1 in support of approval of the Quad, a complete single tablet regimen of Elvitegravir, Cobicistat, Emtricitabine and Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate, for the treatment of HIV-1 infection in treatment-naive adults...
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11/05/2012  Anti-obesity agent Lorcaserin receives positive vote from FDA advisory committee news archive
Eisai announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee voted 18 to 4, with 1 abstention, at a meeting held on May 10, 2012 (local U.S. time) that the available data adequately demonstrate that the potential benefits of the anti-obesity agent Lorcaserin outweigh the potential risks when used long-term in a population of overweight and obese individuals...
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11/05/2012  Mylan launches generic Lipitor in five European countries news archive
Mylan today announced that it has launched Atorvastatin calcium tablets, 10 mg, 20 mg, 40 mg and 80 mg in France, Belgium, the UK, the Netherlands and Ireland...
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15/05/2012  Novartis sues Lupin, Torrent over blood-pressure medicine news archive
Novartis sued Lupin and Torrent Pharmaceuticals for infringing patents on its Exforge HCT blood-pressure medicine...
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16/05/2012  Plavix set to lose patent protection news archive
For more than a decade, cardiologists treating patients who have had a heart attack have routinely scribbled one drug onto their prescription pads: Clopidogrel bisulfate, better known as Plavix...
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16/05/2012  Lupin, Aurobindo get USFDA nod for HIV drug news archive
Lupin and Aurobindo Pharma today said they have received US health regulator's approval to sell generic Combivir tablets, used in treating HIV infection, in the American market...
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17/05/2012  Mylan launches generic version of Plavix tablets news archive
Mylan today announced that its subsidiary Mylan Pharmaceuticals has received final approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for Clopidogrel tablets, 75 mg and 300 mg...
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17/05/2012  Sagent Pharmaceuticals announces launch of Irinotecan hydrochloride injection in single dose vials news archive
Sagent Pharmaceuticals today announced the launch of Irinotecan injection, the generic form of the chemotherapy drug Camptosar...
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18/05/2012  Dr. Reddy's announces the launch of Clopidogrel tablets news archive
Dr. Reddy's announced today that it has launched Clopidogrel tablets, 75 mg & 300 mg, a bioequivalent generic version of Plavix in the US market on May 18, 2012...
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18/05/2012  Digestive Care announces FDA approval of Pertzye [pancrelipase] delayed-release capsules news archive
Digestive Care (DCI), announced that the company has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of its New Drug Application (NDA) for Pertzye, indicated for the treatment of Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency (EPI) due to cystic fibrosis (CF) or other conditions...
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18/05/2012  Watson confirms Lo Loestrin Fe patent challenge news archive
Watson Pharmaceuticals today confirmed that its subsidiary, Watson Laboratories filed an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seeking approval to market Norethindrone Acetate/Ethinyl Estradiol and Ethinyl Estradiol and Ferrous Fumarate Tablets,1 mg/0.01 mg and 0.01 mg and 75 mg...
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18/05/2012  Sagent Pharmaceuticals announces launch of Atracurium besylate injection news archive
Sagent Pharmaceuticals today announced the launch of Atracurium besylate injection, the generic form of the neuromuscular blocker Tracrium...
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18/05/2012  Perrigo announces FDA final approval and launch of store brand OTC Lansoprazole 15 mg capsules news archive
Perrigo today announced that it has received final approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) for Lansoprazole capsules (15 mg)...
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19/05/2012  Actavis receives FDA approval for Ropinirole ER tablets news archive
Actavis, an international generic pharmaceuticals company, today announced that it received US FDA approval of Ropinirole extended-release tablets, 2mg, 4mg, 6mg, 8mg and 12mg, a generic equivalent to GlaxoSmithKline's Requip XL...
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21/05/2012  Cumberland: Intellectual Property news archive
Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, the maker of prescription drugs for emergency medicine, accused generic drug makers Perrigo and InnoPharma of infringing its patent...
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21/05/2012  Noven confirms filing of Abbreviated New Drug Application for generic Lidocaine patch 5% news archive
Noven Pharmaceuticals today confirmed that it has filed an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seeking approval to market its Lidocaine topical patch 5%...
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21/05/2012  Dr. Reddy's announces the launch of over-the-counter Lansoprazole delayed-release capsules news archive
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories announced today that it has launched over-the-counter (OTC) Lansoprazole delayed-release capsules in the US market following Dr. Reddy's ANDA approval by the United States Food & Drug Administration (USFDA)...
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22/05/2012  Prodigy Generics and eVenus announce the launch of oncology injectable Irinotecan news archive
Prodigy Generics, a division of Prodigy Health Supplier Corporation, has launched injectable Irinotecan...
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22/05/2012  Perrigo receives FDA approval for Butoconazole nitrate 2% vaginal cream news archive
Perrigo Company today announced that it has received final approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for Butoconazole nitrate 2% vaginal cream...
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23/05/2012  Mylan launches generic version of Viramune tablets news archive
Mylan today announced that its subsidiary Mylan Pharmaceuticals has received final approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for Nevirapine tablets...
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23/05/2012  APP Pharmaceuticals acquires three products from Nexus news archive
Benztropine mesylate, Levetiracetam and Tranexamic acid injectables are newest additions to critical care portfolio...
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23/05/2012  Everett Laboratories files patent infrigement lawsuit against competitor Trigen Laboratories news archive
Everett, Women's Health Care company, leader in the field of prenatal supplementation, today announced that it had filed a patent infringement lawsuit with a motion for a preliminary injunction in the United States District Court of New Jersey against Trigen, a specialty niche pharmaceutical company...
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24/05/2012  Auxilium and FCB file lawsuit against Watson for infringement of Testim patents news archive
Auxilium and FCB announced today that they filed a lawsuit against Watson for infringement of FCB's ten patents listed in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations (commonly known as the "Orange Book") as covering Testim 1% testosterone gel...
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24/05/2012  Mylan announces settlement agreement in patent infringement litigation relating to Sunovion's Brovana product news archive
Mylan today announced that Mylan Specialty, f/k/a Dey Pharma, has entered into an agreement with Sunovion Pharmaceuticals, f/k/a Sepracor, to resolve the parties' patent litigation relating to Sunovion's Brovana product...
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24/05/2012  Mylan launches generic version of Bonviva film coated tablets in the UK and Italy news archive
Mylan today announced that its UK and Italy-based subsidiaries have launched Ibandronic acid film coated tablets...
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24/05/2012  Sun Pharma announces USFDA approval for generic Astelin nasal spray news archive
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries announced that the USFDA has granted its subsidiary an approval for its Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for its generic version of Astelin, Azelastine HCL nasal spray...
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25/05/2012  Astellas Pharma sues Hospira over patent for heart-test drug news archive
A unit of Japan's Astellas sued Hospira (HSP), accusing the generic pharmaceutical company of infringing a patent for the drug Adenosine, used to diagnose heart blockages...
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29/05/2012  Mylan launches generic version of Lipitor news archive
Mylan today announced that its subsidiary Mylan Laboratories (formerly Matrix Laboratories) has received final approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for Atorvastatin calcium tablets...
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29/05/2012  Watson announces Lidoderm patent challenge settlement news archive
Watson Pharmaceuticals today announced that its subsidiary, Watson Laboratories, has entered into an agreement with Endo Pharmaceuticals and Teikoku Seiyaku to settle all outstanding patent litigation related to Watson's generic version of Lidoderm...
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29/05/2012  IntelGenx achieves positive pivotal study results for bioequivalent anti-migraine VersaFilm formulation of Maxalt-MLT news archive
IntelGenx today announced the completion of the pivotal bioequivalence study for a novel oral thin-film formulation of Rizatriptan, the active drug in Maxalt-MLT orally disintegrating tablets...
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30/05/2012  Perrigo announces FDA final approval of Tris Pharma's Dextromethorphan polistirex extended-release oral suspension news archive
Perrigo today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted final approval to Tris Pharma for its Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for Dextromethorphan polistirex extended-release oral suspension...
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30/05/2012  Actavis launches generic equivalent of Adalat CC 90 mg [Nifedipine extended-release tablets, USP] news archive
Actavis Group, an international generic pharmaceuticals company, today announced that it received US FDA approval of Nifedipine extended-release tablets, USP, 90 mg, a generic equivalent to Bayer's Adalat...
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