Salix file patent suit against Novel
North Carolina, USA-based Salix Pharmaceuticals has filed a law suit in the US District Court for the District of New Jersey against Novel Laboratories for infringement of the patent protecting Osmoprep (sodium phosphate monobasic monohydrate, USP and sodium phosphate dibasic anhydrous, USP) tablets. Salix has an exclusive license to the patent protecting the product from CDC III, for its commercialization in the USA.
The law suit is in response to an Abbreviated New Drug Application filed by Novel with the US Food and Drug Administration regarding the firm's intent to market a generic version of Osmoprep prior to the May 18, 2013, expiration of US Patent No 5,616,346.
Salix says it has full confidence in the intellectual property rights that protect Osmoprep. Moreover, the firm intends to use all reasonable means to continue to vigorously defend and enforce the intellectual property rights protecting the product.
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