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17 January 2023FeaturesPharmaAzadeh Vahdat

Why Novartis lost its treatment dispute with Teva

In a patent revocation and infringement counterclaim action between Teva and Novartis, His Honour Judge Richard Hacon found, in a decision handed down on November 10 2022, lack of inventive step with respect to two Novartis formulation patents ( EP 2,964,202 and EP 3,124,018)

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