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16 January 2024AmericasMarisa Woutersen

SCOTUS urged to remedy ‘threat’ to patent law in sleep drug feud

Biotech company submitted a petition challenging an ‘incorrect’ ruling by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit | Earlier decision invalidated several of Vanda’s patents in its sleep drug dispute against a pair of big pharma firms.

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