Sunday, February 03, 2008

Pharma News Briefs

by Aaron Barkoff
Orange Book Blog




Earlier this week, FDA released its highly anticipated response concerning granisetron 180-day exclusivity. This marks the first time that FDA has interpreted the "failure to market" forfeiture provisions of the 2003 MMA. FDA Law Blog posted a nice summary of FDA's response.

FDA Law Blog also posted on a very interesting case recently filed by Nu-Pharm against FDA, in which Nu-Pharm seeks to force FDA to grant it final approval to market generic Depakote (divalproex sodium).

The Wall St. Journal had an interesting article yesterday on health plans that pay doctors $100 each time they switch a patient to a generic drug. The WSJ Health Blog posted this summary of the article.

A district court in New York recently held that three Purdue Pharma patents on Oxycontin are not unenforceable for inequitable conduct.

Cypress Pharmaceutical announced today that it has settled patent litigation with GSK concerning its generic version of Zantac (ranitidine) syrup.




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