Rochester,NY 8/30/2009 12:05:18 AM
News / Finance

Merck & Co Inc MRK, Merck & Co., Inc.'s Merck Sharp & Dohme Limited Files Marketing Application

Merck & Co., Inc., Whitehouse Station, NJ, USA, which operates in many countries as Merck Sharp & Dohme Limited, announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) accepted for review the company`s Marketing Authorisation Application (MAA) for regulatory approval of vernakalant intravenous.

I also announced that the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey has ruled in Merck's favor in a patent infringement suit against Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. (Teva). Teva was seeking FDA approval to sell a generic version of 4, 5 and 10 mg tablets of SINGULAIR (montelukast sodium), Merck's asthma and allergic rhinitis medicine. In his decision, Judge Garrett E. Brown upheld Merck's patent on SINGULAIR and ruled that Teva committed infringement. Judge Brown also issued an injunction blocking the approval of Teva's generic versions until the August 2012 expiration of the patent. 

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