Antibiotic Legislation Offers Big GAIN For Small Firm: Rib-X Extends Delafloxacin Exclusivity

Rib-X is among the first to take advantage of the Generating Antibiotic Incentives Now provisions of the FDA reauthorization legislation with five years’ extra exclusivity for its lead broad spectrum antibiotic candidate, a next-generation fluoroquinolone. Designation for the program came swiftly, company says.

Melinta Therapeutics Inc.’s next-generation fluroquinolone delafloxacin now has another five years’ of marketing exclusivity, as one of the first drugs to receive a qualified infectious disease product designation under the Generating Antibiotic Incentives Now provisions recently passed by Congress.

Patents covering composition of matter of the Phase III-ready delafloxacin expire in 2016, including additional patent term adjustments or patent...

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