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AstraZeneca: Europe Revokes Symbicort COPD Patent


May 6, 2008--Following an appeal from generic drugmakers Norton Healthcare and Generics UK, the European Patent Office revoked one of two combination patents covering the use of AstraZeneca’s Symbicort drug to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The patent’s original expiration date was 2018. Europe accounted for more than $1 billion of Symbicort’s worldwide sales in 2007. MarketWatch

 

Genstruct: Patience, Persistence, and Payoff 
By John Russell

Finding the right business model for systems biology (SB) technology providers has been challenging — that’s hardly a new theme in biotech.

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