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- Title
Purdue appeals OxyContin patents.
- Abstract
Reports that Purdue Pharma LP's patents covering its painkiller OxyContin are invalid, according to Judge Sidney Stein of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Details of a patent infringement suit involving Purdue and Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc., who were trying to sell a generic OxyContin; Reasons why the judge found Purdue's patents unenforceable; Claims made by OxyContin's inventor, Robert F. Kaiko, that were not supported by clinical evidence or studies; Excerpts from internal company documents, suggesting that Kaiko's claims were not supported by clinical evidence.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PURDUE Pharma LP; PATENT infringement; ENDO International PLC; PATENT law; OXYCODONE; GENERIC drug substitution; CLINICAL drug trials; ACTIONS &; defenses (Law)
- Publication
Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2004, Vol 3, Issue 2, p106
- ISSN
1474-1776
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nrd1316