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11 December 2014Americas

Acne drug at centre of ‘first’ IPR ruling of its kind

Pharmaceutical company Supernus and its subsidiary Galderma have had their Oracea (doxycycline) acne treatment drug protected from a generic challenge, in a decision dubbed the “first of its kind”.

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