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Copaxone Patents in Litigation

Teva has nine US Copaxone patents being litigated with NVS/MNTA as indicated below. All nine patents are related and have the same inventors. For reasons that are unclear, only seven of these nine patents are listed in the FDA’s Orange Book; these seven have an Orange-Book expiration date of 5/24/14.

(Teva attempted to have three additional Copaxone patents pertaining to molecular-weight markers [Nos. 6514938, 7074580, and 7163802] included in the litigation, but this request was denied by the Court.)

Following are the patent numbers of the nine litigated patents with links to their descriptions on the US PTO’s website.

No. 5800808 (not in Orange Book):
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5800808.PN.&OS=PN/5800808&RS=PN/5800808

No. 5981589:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5981589.PN.&OS=PN/5981589&RS=PN/5981589

No. 6048898 (not in Orange Book):
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6048898.PN.&OS=PN/6048898&RS=PN/6048898

No. 6054430:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6054430.PN.&OS=PN/6054430&RS=PN/6054430

No. 6342476:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6342476.PN.&OS=PN/6342476&RS=PN/6342476

No. 6362161:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6362161.PN.&OS=PN/6362161&RS=PN/6362161

No. 6620847:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6620847.PN.&OS=PN/6620847&RS=PN/6620847

No. 6939539:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6939539.PN.&OS=PN/6939539&RS=PN/6939539

No. 7199098:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7199098.PN.&OS=PN/7199098&RS=PN/7199098