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7 July 2017Big Pharma

UK Supreme Court rules against Actavis in Eli Lilly patent dispute

The UK Supreme Court has ruled that Actavis’s generic versions of cancer drug Alimta directly infringe patents owned by Eli Lilly, reversing two earlier decisions.

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