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After Hep C Patent Battle, Gilead Faces ViiV Suit Over Its New HIV Drug

 
• By Brenda Sandburg

Complaint says similarities between Gilead's Biktarvy and ViiV's dolutegravir suggest Gilead copied ViiV's drug.

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Gilead Sciences Inc. is once again in the middle of a high stakes patent brawl as ViiV Healthcare claims Gilead's new HIV combination therapy Biktarvy (BIC/TAF) is insubstantially different from ViiV's dolutegravir.

ViiV filed a patent infringement suit against Gilead in the US District Court for the District of Delaware on Feb. 7, the day FDA approved Biktarvy

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