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Forest Laboratories, Inc. and Merz Pharma GmbH & Co. KgaA File Lawsuits Against Several Companies for Patent Infringement
Date:1/10/2008

NEW YORK, Jan. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Forest Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: FRX), Forest Laboratories Holdings, Ltd., Merz Pharma GmbH & Co. KgaA, and Merz Pharmaceuticals GmbH announced that they have filed lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware against several companies for infringement of U.S. Patent No. 5,061,703 (the '703 patent), which relates to Forest's Namenda(R) product. The defendants named in the lawsuits include Barr Laboratories, Inc., Cobalt Laboratories, Inc., Lupin Ltd., Orchid Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., Upsher-Smith Laboratories Inc., Wockhardt Ltd., and related companies and subsidiaries thereof. The '703 patent expires in April 2010. Forest has applied for patent term extension which, if granted, would extend the '703 patent until September 2013.

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As previously reported, Forest had received notification from several companies that they had filed Abbreviated New Drug Applications with Paragraph IV certifications to obtain approval to market generic versions of Namenda.

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