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1 June 2015

English court grants Warner’s appeal in Lyrica second medical use case

The English Court of Appeal has said pharmaceutical company Warner-Lambert has a viable argument that Actavis indirectly infringed a second medical use patent covering Warner’s drug Lyrica (pregabalin).

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