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Mitsubishi Takes Teneligliptin Patent Appeal To Indian Court

 
• By Anju Ghangurde

Japan's Mitsubishi Tanabe has moved a court against Indian patent authorities in a case concerning its patent application relating to certain salts of teneligliptin. The move has set the cat among the pigeons in the Indian market, where cut price versions of the diabetes drug have made strong gains over the recent past, though it's still unclear if the salt patent may have a bearing on these.

Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corp. has moved the Delhi High Court in India against the Deputy Controller of Patents and Designs and certain other defendants in a case pertaining to the rejection of a local patent relating to certain salts of the DDP-4 inhibitor teneligliptin, amid apparent delays in having a functional bench of India's Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB).

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