Lilly Rejected by U.S. Supreme Court in Gemzar Patent Case

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The U.S. Supreme Court refused to consider Eli Lilly & Co.’s bid to re-establish the drugmaker’s exclusive right to sell the cancer medicine Gemzar.

The justices today left intact a federal appeals court decision invalidating a patent that would have protected Gemzar from generic competition in the U.S. until May 2013.