Guest guest Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 Zavie, you might be interested in this article. Took a while to find it and when I did, it kept fading out and leaving a message the web site was not available. Aug. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Bayer AG, Germany's largest drugmaker, sued Novartis AG's Sandoz unit to prevent it from selling a copy of the Yaz birth-control pill in the U.S. Sandoz, the world's second-biggest maker of generic drugs, is seeking U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval to sell a copy of Yaz. According to complaints filed Aug. 1, Bayer wants a federal judge in Denver or Las Vegas to block that approval until two patents on the medicine expire in 2014. Bayer, based in Leverkusen, Germany, needs to protect Yaz from generic competition because a judge invalidated a patent on a related pill, Yasmin, in a dispute with Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc. Bayer cut the 2008 profit goal for its health-care unit and last month signed an agreement to allow Barr to distribute Yasmin under its own label in an effort to retain sales. The rest of the article is in Bloomberg: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601100 & sid=aYejyx6dyxiY & refer=germany Blessings, Lottie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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