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This puts a dent in the MRK-CBST deal:

http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/12/08/us-health-cubist-pharm-idINKBN0JM2HQ20141208

Hospira Inc can launch a generic version of Cubist Pharmaceuticals Inc 's leading drug Cubicin as soon as 2016, a federal judge has ruled.

U.S. District Judge Gregory Sleet in Delaware ruled Monday that four of Cubist's patents on Cubicin, an antibiotic injection used in hospitals to treat bacterial skin infections, were invalid.

Those patents would have given Cubist the exclusive right to sell Cubicin through November 2020. Sleet upheld one patent that expires in June 2016.