2016-12-02
Paris 1st Instance Court - Pfizer Limited & others v/ Biogaran, Sanofi et others
BIOGARAN was represented by Marianne Gabriel, attorney at law. SANOFI was represented by Arnaud Casalonga, attorney at law, assisted by Floriane Codevelle, attorney at law. Gérard Dossmann, French and European Patent Attorney, assisted them.
This is the first case of skinny labeling in France.
Issues:
- - Prohibition and immediate recall of products
- - Closing of the generic market
- - Huge financial consequences
In that case, Pfizer initially filed a patent on the pregabalin compound, which expired in 2013, and a patent for a second therapeutic application in 1997, for the use of (...)