16 August 2019Americas

Fed Circuit majority ‘problematically’ adds new rule in Actavis suit: chief judge

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit yesterday, August 15, blocked Actavis’s attempt to market a generic version of Nalpropion Pharmaceuticals’ weight-loss drug Contrave (naltrexone hydrochloride and bupropion hydrochloride).

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