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Wednesday 18 November 2009

No further UK appeal over levofloxacin

According to a news item this morning on the UKSCblog, which focuses on the activities of the new Supreme Court for the United Kingdom which took over the appellate functions of the House of Lords this autumn, the Supreme Court has refused permission to appeal in Generics (UK) Ltd v Daiichi Pharmaceuticals [2009] EWCA Civ 646 (noted here on The SPC Blog). Generics (now known as Mylan) wanted to appeal against the decision of the Court of Appeal that that Daiichi's by then expired patent antibacterial levofloxacin and the supplementary protection certificate based upon it were valid.

This news item has been picked up by Zenopa here. It does not however appear on the Supreme Court's own website or on any of the usual internet news channels.

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