RANBAXY CAN APPEAL AGAINST ATORVASTATIN RULING

Ranbaxy Laboratories today said the UK High Court had granted it permission to appeal against October 12 ruling of patent infringement of its cholesterol-lowering drug atorvastatin. The UK High Court had ruled that Ranbaxy's atorvastatin product would infringe Warner Lambert/Pfizer's European patent 247633 in the United Kingdom. Atorvastatin is a cholesterol-lowering drug which is marketed by Pfizer as Lipitor.

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