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July 21, 2017, 9:37 PM UTC

Momenta, Novartis Lose U.S. Patent Trial on Generic Lovenox

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By Janelle Lawrence and Susan Decker, Bloomberg News

Momenta Pharmaceuticals Inc. lost a patent- infringement trial against Amphastar Pharmaceuticals Inc. over a process to make generic versions of the blood-thinner Lovenox.

Momenta pledged to appeal.

A Momenta patent is invalid, a federal jury in Boston decided Friday. Momenta dropped as much as 3 percent on the news, while Amphastar rose 2.6 percent.

Momenta and Novartis AG’s Sandoz unit had said they were entitled to $1 billion because of lost sales to Amphastar.

That’s almost four times the annual sales of Amphastar.

The patent is for a process used to test ...

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