Gilenya用以治療多發性硬化症,是Novartis最暢銷藥品之一,2021 年收入為 28 億美元。Gilenya有二個專利保護,包括藥品組合物與藥品劑量專利。其中藥品組物之專利號為8,324,283(283專利),劑量專利號為9,187,405(405號專利)。2017年在Novartis AG v. Torrent Pharms案中,CAFC確認PTAB的決定,以專利不符合非顯而易見性之標準,認為283專利無效[2]。
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IPR2014-00784, IPR2015-00518
The U.S. Patent No. 9,187,405 (“’405 patent”) owned by Respondent
Novartis. The Board first instituted trial on all grounds of invalidity in IPR2017-00854 brought by certain generic pharmaceutical companies , and subsequently instituted trial on all grounds of invalidity presented by Argentum in IPR2017-01550.
July 11, 2018, the Board issued a final
written decision finding (IPR2017-01550)at the IPR petitioners had
not shown that the claims of the ’405 patent are not vailid in view of the asserted prior art.also aviable at https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/ptab-filings%2FIPR2017-01550%2F12.
在複審決定中,上訴委員會對於Kovarik的文獻的解讀: “merely illustrates how a loading dose might be used for an unspecified autoimmune disease, but would have had little relevance to the treatment of RR-MS, and provides no guidance as to dosing for RRMS”