Is it often that the one appealing will win in a patent case like this?
Please clarify what you mean by the phrase like this? Reversals of US drug-patent cases on appeal are more common than some investors think; for instance, it happened with Norvasc (which at the time was PFE’s second-largest drug)—see #msg-18124296.
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