Thursday's decision will keep a Cubicin generic out of the market only until June 2016. The court invalidated four of Merck's patents that would have protected the drug's market share up to 2020.
MRK says it may appeal to the USSC, If the CAFC’s ruling stands, it will lend credence to the notion that the $9.5B price MRK paid for CBST one year ago was too high (#msg-108853418).
“The efficient-market hypothesis may be the foremost piece of B.S. ever promulgated in any area of human knowledge!”