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Debiopharm Wins Elplat Patent Suit against Nippon Kayaku
Swiss-based Debiopharm International SA said on March 4 that it has won a patent infringement suit against Nippon Kayaku in Japan over the anticancer agent Elplat (oxaliplatin). The Tokyo District Court has ruled that a generic version of Elplat marketed…
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