Ranbaxy to Appeal U.S. District Court Decision Upholding Pfizer Atorvastatin Patents.

PR Newswire Europe, December, 2005

PRINCETON, New Jersey, December 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited announced today that the U.S. District Court of Delaware ruled against Ranbaxy in its case for non-infringement and invalidation of two Pfizer patents on atorvastatin. Atorvastatin is a cholesterol-lowering drug, marketed by Pfizer as Lipitor(R), and is the largest-selling drug in the world.

Judge Joseph J. Farnan held that Ranbaxy's atorvastatin infringes Pfizer's U.S. Patent No. 4,681,893, and at the same time upheld the validity of another, Pfizer U.S. Patent No. 5,273,995 which Ranbaxy had claimed was invalid. The ruling followed a hearing in the U.S. District Court of Delaware, which took place in December 2005. Ranbaxy plans to begin the appeals process immediately....

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