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Copaxone Continues Cleaning Tysabri’s Clock in US Market

[Updated for 4Q10 Tysabri sales.]


The US market is the one of consequence for MNTA investors insofar as
this is where MNTA/NVS have submitted an ANDA for generic Copaxone.
Below are Tysabri and Copaxone US sales for the past nine quarters with
the recent year-over-year and quarter-over-quarter growth rates. Copaxone
outsells Tysabri in the US by approximately 4:1.

 
       -------TYSABRI-------    ------COPAXONE------- 
       US $M  Y-o-Y   Q-o-Q     US $M  Y-o-Y   Q-o-Q   
       Sales  Change  Change    Sales  Change  Change 
 4Q10   162   +18%     +7%        *      *       * 
 3Q10   151   +15%     +4%       588    +9%    +11% 
 2Q10   145                      531  
 1Q10   135                      513 
 4Q09   137                      509 
 3Q09   131                      540 
 2Q09   125                      438 
 1Q09   116                      430 
 4Q08   115                      384 
 3Q08   122                      352

*Teva reports 4Q10 Copaxone sales on Feb 8.