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Sawai, Fuso Ordered to Pay 20-Plus Billion Yen in Remitch Patent Suit
Japan’s Intellectual Property High Court has ordered Sawai Pharmaceutical and Fuso Pharmaceutical Industries to pay a total of over 20 billion yen in damages for infringing the patent of Toray Industries’ pruritus drug Remitch OD Tablets (nalfurafine). Sawai was ordered…
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