Entresto Patent Order Quashed In India, Market Ripe For Action

Court sets aside order pertaining to patent for Novartis’s Entresto in India, setting the stage for high-octane generic competition that potentially includes frontline domestic companies. If the Swiss firm appeals, market dynamics may be impacted but prices of same-composition second brands of the heart-failure therapy are already headed southwards.

Market Action Looms As Entresto Patent Set Aside In India • Source: Shutterstock

Less than a month after Novartis AG secured a patent pertaining to Entresto (sacubitril/valsartan) in India, a court has sent the matter back to the Indian patent office for reconsideration, albeit from a specific juncture in the case, after noting certain “disquieting” features of the procedure that was followed in the grant of the patent.

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