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MUSC Foundation for Research Development et al v. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP
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February 19, 2016
AstraZeneca Ducks Row Over Too-Broad Patent
A South Carolina federal judge freed AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP from a medical school's patent infringement suit Friday over cholesterol drug Crestor, finding a university scientist's patent unenforceable because it was broad enough to be considered a hypothesis rather than an invention.
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December 09, 2013
AstraZeneca Can't Shake Patent Suit Over Crestor Trials
A South Carolina federal judge refused Friday to dismiss a patent infringement suit AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP faces over a clinical trial of alternative uses for its Crestor cholesterol drug, trimming several claims lodged by the University of South Carolina's medical school but leaving others intact.
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October 24, 2013
AstraZeneca Says Safe Harbor Dooms Crestor Patent Suit
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP urged a South Carolina federal judge Wednesday to toss a patent infringement suit facing the drugmaker over a clinical trial for Crestor, saying its actions during the trial were protected by a safe harbor provision and there was no proof the company infringed the patents afterward.
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August 01, 2013
Med School Slaps AstraZeneca With Crestor Patent Suit
The research division of the University of South Carolina's medical school hit AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP with a patent infringement suit in federal court Thursday, alleging that the drugmaker willfully pilfered its technology in its clinical trial for the drug Crestor.