UK Courts Uphold Lilly Alimta Patents

The London-based Supreme Court found that Actavis products infringe Eli Lilly patents for its third best-selling drug, Alimta.

The court ruled that Activis generic pemetrexed products violated Lilly’s patent for pemetrexed disodium-based cancer treatment in the UK, France, Italy and Spain prior to June 2021.

Actavis, now owned by Teva, launched its pemetrexed Armisarte in June 2015.

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