Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Lupin settles Alzheimer drug litigation with Forest Laboratories

Pharma major, Lupin announced today that it has settled all ongoing Hatch Waxman litigation relating to memantine tablets, Lupin's generic version of Forest Laboratories, Alzheimer disease treatment "Namenda" tablets. As per the terms of the settlement, Lupin will be licensed under the relevant patents and would be free to commercially launch its generic product in Jan 2015 or earlier in certain circumstances. Lupin had earlier filed a Paragraph IV certification to US Patent No 5,061,703, contesting that the patent was invalid or had not been infringed, resulting in the subsequent litigation with Forest.

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