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24 March 2015Americas

Federal Circuit agrees that Exela infringed Ofirmev patents

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit yesterday (March 23) upheld a district court's decision that pharmaceutical company Exela infringed two patents covering Cadence Pharmaceuticals’s injectable Ofirmev (acetaminophen), used for pain relief.

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