MUSC Foundation for Research Development et al v. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

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