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Teva wins ruling over Coreg damages in US

 
• By Dean Rudge

Teva cannot be ordered to pay just over US$235 million in damages to GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) for infringing a method-of-use patent shielding the originator’s Coreg (carvedilol) antihypertensive, because “substantial evidence” does not support a federal jury’s earlier finding that Teva was liable for induced infringement through sales of its generic, a US district court has ordered.

Teva cannot be ordered to pay just over US$235 million in damages to GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) for infringing a method-of-use patent shielding the originator’s Coreg (carvedilol) antihypertensive, because “substantial evidence” does not support a federal jury’s earlier finding that Teva was liable for induced infringement through sales of its generic, a US district court has ordered.

In June last year, following a jury trial in a patent-infringement action over GSK’s reissued US patent RE40,000, jurors reached...

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