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01/10/2009  Impax Laboratories Commences Shipment of Generic Adderall XR Capsules, 5mg, 10mg, 15mg, 20mg, 25mg, and 30mg news archive
Impax Laboratories, Inc. today announced that it is commencing shipment of its authorized generic version of Adderall XR Capsules, 5mg, 10mg, 15mg, 20mg, 25mg and 30mg, through Global Pharmaceuticals, Impax's generic division. Shire Pharmaceuticals markets Adderall XR for the treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ...
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01/10/2009  US Congress urged to act on biosimilars news archive
US campaigners yesterday urged Congress to create a "real" regulatory pathway for generic versions of biologic drugs, but researchers warn that it may take until 2011 to implement any such policies...
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01/10/2009  Actavis' clients launch first generic Atorvastatin in Spain news archive
Actavis today announced that its third-party sales division, Medis, has delivered 30 million tablets of Atorvastatin to its clients in Spain. This is the first generic version of the blockbuster molecule to reach the Spanish market...
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02/10/2009  Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories, Ltd. Closes Asset Purchase Agreement with Forest Laboratories, Inc. to Settle Lexapro escitalopram oxalate ANDA Patent Litigation news archive
Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories, Ltd. announced that, as part of the previously announced settlement of the legal proceedings related to Lexapro (escitalopram oxalate) tablets, it closed an Asset Purchase Agreement transaction with Forest Laboratories, Inc. (Forest) to acquire several products from Forest's Inwood line of business. The ANDA patent litigation settlement resolves litigation involving Caraco, Forest, Forest Holdings, Ltd., and H. Lundbeck A/S and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Limited...
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05/10/2009  Impax Laboratories Receives Tentative FDA Approval for Generic Flomax 0.4mg Capsules news archive
Impax Laboratories, Inc. today confirmed that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted tentative approval of the Company's Abbreviated New Drug Application for generic version of Flomax (tamsulosin hydrochloride) 0.4mg capsules...
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05/10/2009  Sandoz Launches Somatropin news archive
Sandoz today announced the launch of its recombinant human growth hormone somatropin in Japan, the first-ever biosimilar to be approved and launched on the world's second largest pharmaceutical market. The launch follows the precedent-setting approval of somatropin - already marketed as Omnitrope in the EU, the US, Australia and elsewhere - by Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in June of this year...
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05/10/2009  Sanofi to launch own generic version of Plavix news archive
French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis is preparing to sell its own generic version of the blockbuster heart medicine Plavix in France, a company spokesman said on Monday...
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05/10/2009  Daiichi Sankyo to Leverage Ranbaxy's Presence in Mexico for Marketing and Distribution news archive
Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited and Daiichi Sankyo Company Limited announced today that the portfolio of Daiichi Sankyo would be commercialized in Mexico through a recently created marketing Division within Ranbaxy Mexico S.A. de C.V., a subsidiary of Ranbaxy. This is the first time in Latin America that Daiichi Sankyo and Ranbaxy are leveraging mutual synergies generated through the Hybrid Business Model...
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07/10/2009  EU raids drug makers on suspected antitrust abuse news archive
Drug makers Sanofi-Aventis SA, Novartis AG and Ratiopharm International GmbH said Wednesday that EU regulators had carried out surprise raids at their French offices as part of an antitrust probe...
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07/10/2009  Impax Laboratories Settles Pending Litigation for Flomax news archive
Impax Laboratories, Inc. today announced that it has reached agreement with Astellas Pharma Inc. and Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. to settle pending U.S. litigation with regard to US Patent No. 4,703,063 for Flomax (tamsulosin hydrochloride) capsules through the entry of a consent judgment confirming the validity and infringement of the patent....
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07/10/2009  Federal Court Approves Eloxatin Settlement Agreement news archive
The U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey has signed off on Sanofi-Aventis' settlement agreement with Sun Phatmaceutical Industries Ltd. despite the fact that Sanofi failed to exchange all relevant signature pages. The agreement ends the litigation over a generic version of Eloxatin, a colon cancer drug manufactured and marketed by Sanofi...
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08/10/2009  APP Pharmaceuticals Receives Approval for Sumatriptan Succinate Injection, USP news archive
APP Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Fresenius Kabi Pharmaceuticals Holding, Inc., announced today that it has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market Sumatriptan Succinate Injection, USP, in two dosage strengths...
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08/10/2009  EU officials raid Ranbaxy French unit news archive
India's largest pharma company Ranbaxy on Wednesday said its French unit has been raided by European antitrust officials as part of a probe on cozy drugs settlements which allegedly delay the launch of low-cost generic drugs...
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08/10/2009  The Medicines Company Files Patent Infringement Lawsuits news archive
The Medicines Company today announced that it has filed lawsuits against Teva Parenteral Medicines, Inc., Pliva Hrvatska d.o.o. and APP Pharmaceuticals, LLC, and related entities in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware alleging patent infringement based on Abbreviated New Drug Applications seeking U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval to market and sell generic versions of The Medicines Company's Angiomax product prior to expiration of U.S. Patent No. 7,582,727...
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08/10/2009  Hospira, Celltrion, Enter Business Cooperation Agreement to Develop and Market Biogeneric Drugs news archive
Hospira, Inc., the world leader in generic injectable pharmaceuticals, today signed a Business Cooperation Agreement with South Korea-based Celltrion, Inc. and Celltrion Healthcare, Inc. (Celltrion), which outlines the business terms of a future distribution agreement for the United States, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Canada for eight biogeneric products that are currently under development by Celltrion, five of which are incremental to Hospira's pipeline...
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09/10/2009  FDA approves generic OTC allergy medication news archive
The agency approved Anmeal Pharmaceuticals' cetirizine hydrochloride syrup in the 5 mg-per-5 milliliter strength. ...
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11/10/2009  Pfizer Inc. et al. v. Sandoz Inc. news archive
The complaints in these cases are substantially identical. Infringement of U.S. Patent No. 6,455,574 (Therapeutic Combination, issued September 24, 2002) following a Paragraph IV certification as part of Sandoz's filing of an ANDA to manufacture a generic version of Pfizer's Caduet (atorvastatin calcium and amlodipine besylate) ...
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13/10/2009  Shire and Sandoz Settle All Pending Litigation Concerning Adderall XR news archive
Shire plc, the global specialty biopharmaceutical company, announces that it has settled all pending litigation with Sandoz, Inc. (Sandoz) in connection with Sandoz's Abbreviated New Drug Application and its attempt to market generic versions of Shire's Adderall XR (mixed amphetamine salts) for the treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder...
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13/10/2009  Perrigo Confirms Filing for Generic Version of Men's Rogaine Foam news archive
Perrigo Company today announced that it has filed an Abbreviated New Drug Application for over-the-counter Minoxidil topical aerosol foam, 5%, a generic form of Men's Rogaine Foam. ...
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14/10/2009  Mylan Announces Settlement Agreement Related to Vfend First-to-File Opportunity news archive
Mylan Inc. today announced that the company's Mylan Pharmaceuticals and Matrix Laboratories subsidiaries entered into a settlement and license agreement with Pfizer Inc. relating to Voriconazole Tablets, 50 mg and 200 mg, the generic version of Pfizer's Vfend Tablets, a triazole antifungal agent...
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14/10/2009  Pfizer Announces Settlement And License Agreement With Mylan Related To Vfend news archive
Pfizer Inc today announced that it has entered into an agreement with two subsidiaries of Mylan Inc. relating to a generic version of Vfend (voriconazole), an antifungal agent. The agreement is limited to the tablet form of Vfend and does not cover Pfizer's Vfend products for intravenous use or oral suspension...
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14/10/2009  Teva Files Counterclaims in Gilead Suit news archive
In answer to a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York by Gilead Sciences Inc. over alleged patent infringement, Teva Pharmaceuticals has filed an amended answer and counterclaim alleging that the patents-in-suit are invalid...
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15/10/2009  Mylan Receives FDA Approval for Generic Version of Anticonvulsant Topamax Sprinkle Capsules news archive
Mylan Inc. today announced that its subsidiary Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for Topiramate Capsules (Sprinkle), 15 mg and 25 mg...
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16/10/2009  Teva Comments On Mylan Paragraph IV Filing for Copaxone; Files Lawsuit Against Generic Filer for Patent Infringement news archive
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. commented today on the abbreviated new drug application containing a Paragraph IV certification for Copaxone (glatiramer acetate injection), filed by Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. Teva also announced that it has filed a lawsuit against Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Mylan Inc. and Natco Pharma Ltd. for patent infringement in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York...
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17/10/2009  Ranbaxy wins US court ruling on Roche patent news archive
Daiichi Sankyo-owned Ranbaxy Laboratories has won a decisive ruling from the District Court of New Jersey that its generic version of valganciclovir, prescribed for HIV/Aids patients and for organ transplantation-related infections, does not infringe the patent rights of Swiss drug maker Roche's anti-infection drug, Valcyte...
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18/10/2009  Maybe Hatch-Waxman Data Exclusivity Isn't So Good For Traditional Drugs After All news archive
The principal debate involving follow-on biologics legislation has revolved around the length of the data exclusivity term granted to innovators. The bill voted out of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee earlier this year has a 12-year data exclusivity term, which is shorter than the term supported by industry groups such as the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) and also shorter than the term supported by the only peer-reviewed economic analysis of record...
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19/10/2009  Perrigo Announces Dismissal of Duac Patent Litigation news archive
Perrigo Company announced today that the Hatch-Waxman litigation relating to Duac Gel (clindamycin phosphate (1%) and benzoyl peroxide (5%) gel) filed by the Stiefel Laboratories division of Glaxo SmithKline has been dismissed with prejudice. Earlier this year, KV Pharmaceuticals had been sued by Stiefel for infringement of a patent related to KV's filing of an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for a generic to Duac Gel in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware...
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21/10/2009  Cephalon Notified of Generic Filing for Armodafinil Tablets news archive
Cephalon, Inc. today announced receipt of a Paragraph IV Certification Notice Letter on October 20, 2009 regarding an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. requesting approval to market and sell a generic version of the 50 mg, 100 mg, 150 mg, 200 mg and 250 mg strengths of NUVIGIL (armodafinil) Tablets [C-IV]. In the Notice Letter, Teva alleges that U.S. Patent Nos. 7,132,570 (the "'570 Patent"), 7,297,346 (the "'346 Patent") and RE37,516 (the "'516 Patent") issued to Cephalon are invalid, unenforceable and/or will not be infringed by Teva's manufacture, use or sale of the product described in Teva's ANDA submission....
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21/10/2009  APP Pharmaceuticals Receives Approval for the First Generic Chlorothiazide Sodium for Injection, USP news archive
APP Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Fresenius Kabi Pharmaceuticals Holding, Inc., announced today that it has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market Chlorothiazide Sodium for Injection, USP. APP expects to launch Chlorothiazide Sodium for Injection, USP in the fourth quarter of 2009. ...
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22/10/2009  Genericlicensing.com Celebrate 1,000 Products & Launch Of Printed Directory news archive
Genericlicensing Limited (a joint venture between Pharmalicensing.com and ICE Pharma Group) had a double celebration this week. Reaching a milestone 1,000 products available online and the launch of the world's first printed Global Generic Product Directory (directory.genericlicensing.com). ...
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22/10/2009  Novartis: Diovan Decline To Accelerate On Generic Cozaar Launch news archive
Novartis AG expects the decline in U.S. sales of its best-selling drug Diovan to accelerate from April next year, when generic Cozaar will be launched, Joe Jimenez, the head of the pharmaceutical unit, said Thursday. ...
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22/10/2009  India, Brazil to take EU to court in generics row news archive
India and Brazil will take the European Union to court at the World Trade Organisation, diplomats said on Thursday, raising the stakes in a bitter dispute over seizures of generic drugs...
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23/10/2009  FTC, drugstores sue Solvay over delay in generic AndroGel news archive
The Federal Trade Commission and several national pharmacy chains are suing Marietta-based Solvay Pharmaceuticals Inc. for allegedly colluding to block the generic release of AndroGel, a top-selling product...
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23/10/2009  Allergan Announces Victory in Brimonidine Patent Infringement Case news archive
Allergan, Inc. announced today that the United States District Court for the District of Delaware ruled in favor of Allergan, Inc. in its patent infringement suit against Exela PharmSci, Inc., Exela PharmSci Pvt., Ltd. (Exela), Apotex, Inc. and Apotex Corp. (Apotex) (collectively, the Defendants) for seeking to market purported generic versions of Allergan's drugs Alphagan P (brimonidine tartrate ophthalmic solution) 0.1% and 0.15%...
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24/10/2009  Pfizer slaps Unilab with patent suit over contested drug news archive
Seeking to protect its patent for its popular anti-cholesterol drug Lipitor, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. has filed a patent infringement case against local competitor United Laboratories Inc....
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24/10/2009  Sun to stop making Alzheimer's drug after losing patent battle news archive
Sun Pharmaceuticals has agreed not to manufacture and market the generic version of Alzheimer's drug of Forest Laboratories, after it lost patent battle with the US drugmaker on Thursday. ...
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26/10/2009  FDA Determines Vyvanse was Properly Granted Five-Year Market Exclusivity news archive
Shire plc, the global specialty biopharmaceutical company, announces that the Food and Drug Administration, following a thorough administrative review of governing statutory and regulatory standards and public comments, has affirmed its prior decision to grant five-year New Chemical Entity exclusivity to lisdexamfetamine dimesylate...
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26/10/2009  Hospira Completes Decentralised Procedure for Generic Docetaxel - Full Launch Expected By End of 2010 news archive
Hospira, Inc., the world leader in generic injectable pharmaceuticals, today announced the completion of decentralised procedure (DCP) for generic docetaxel, and expects to launch across most of Europe between now and the end of 2010...
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26/10/2009  Bayer Loss Over Yasmin Birth-Control Patent Upheld news archive
Bayer AG lost a bid to have a court overturn a ruling that said its U.S. patent on the birth-control pill Yasmin is invalid...
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26/10/2009  Sanofi-Aventis Faces Hospira, Apotex in Patent Trial news archive
A unit of Sanofi-Aventis SA, France's biggest drugmaker, accused U.S. rival Hospira Inc. and Canada's Apotex Inc. of infringing patents for the cancer drug Taxotere as a non-jury trial began today...
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28/10/2009  Watson and Barr Settle Lawsuit Over Oxytrol news archive
Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a leading specialty pharmaceutical company, announced today that its subsidiary Watson Laboratories, Inc. has reached a settlement with Barr Laboratories, Inc. on outstanding patent litigation related to Watson's Oxytrol (Oxybutynin Transdermal System, 3.9mg/24hr.) product...
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