Nissan Chemical Industries has recently filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the US against Sawai Pharmaceutical and its US subsidiary, which filed its generic version of the hyperlipidemia treatment Livalo (pitavastatin) for FDA approval. This means that the approval could…
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