Orexo commences patent infringement litigation against Actavis for their generic versions of Suboxone® and Subutex® tablets in the US
Uppsala, Sweden – March 1, 2017 – Orexo AB (publ.) today announced that it has filed a patent infringement action in United States District Court for the District of Delaware against Actavis Elizabeth LLC, Actavis Pharma, Inc., and their parent company Teva (collectively “Actavis”). Orexo alleges that Actavis’s generic versions of Suboxone and Subutex tablets infringe Orexo’s US Patent No. 8,454,996 (the ‘996 patent). On November 15, 2016, the Delaware District Court held Orexo’s ’996 patent (which expires in September 2019) valid and infringed by Actavis’s generic versions of Zubsolv®.