Supreme Court To Consider Patent Use Codes, But At Best Can Give Generic Firms A Hunting License
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
The Supreme Court will address whether an ANDA sponsor can challenge a brand name company's alteration of a drug's patent use code to block generic competition.
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