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Sandoz Admits To Widescale Infringement In Resolving US Rinvoq Patent Tussle

Hetero, Aurobindo, Sun Pharma Remain In Litigation Over $6bn JAK Inhibitor

 
• By Dean Rudge

Sandoz has reached an agreement with AbbVie to dismiss without prejudice patent-infringement litigation involving more than 20 patents shielding the originator’s blockbuster JAK inhibitor Rinvoq.

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Sandoz has resolved its Hatch-Waxman patent-infringement dispute with AbbVie in the US over the originator’s Rinvoq (upadacitinib) extended-release tablets, declaring that its proposed abbreviated new drug application product infringes 23 patents shielding the mega-blockbuster JAK inhibitor.

According to a stipulation and order signed by Delaware district court judge Maryellen Noreika, “Sandoz admits that the asserted patents...

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