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21 January 2021Big PharmaMuireann Bolger

MSD fails in SCOTUS bid to revive record $2.5bn verdict

A subsidiary of MSD (known as Merck & Co in the US) has failed to revive a record $2.5bn verdict against Gilead Sciences, after the US Supreme Court refused to hear arguments that a patent was improperly invalidated.

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