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Kowa Company is engaged in an unprecedented trademark infringement lawsuit against manufacturers of generic versions of its hyperlipidemia treatment Livalo (pitavastatin calcium). Kowa, which owns the word “PITAVA” as a registered trademark, claims that the generic drug makers’ use of…
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