Al­ler­gan slammed as fed­er­al judge in­val­i­dates Resta­sis patents, slaps Mo­hawk deal

For weeks now Al­ler­gan has been ham­mered by a grow­ing le­gion of crit­ics in and out of Con­gress for its re­cent de­ci­sion to shift con­trol of its patents for Resta­sis to the Saint Reg­is Mo­hawk Tribe in an at­tempt to shield them from an ad­min­is­tra­tive re­view.

But that may have been all for naught.

A fed­er­al judge in Texas to­day ruled that Al­ler­gan’s Resta­sis patents, the last line of pro­tec­tion from gener­ics which aim to steal away their $1.5 bil­lion fran­chise, are in­valid. But the trib­al rights had noth­ing to do with that de­ci­sion. The judge cen­tered his de­ci­sion on his be­lief that the ideas the patents sought to pro­tect were too ob­vi­ous to pro­tect, ac­cord­ing to Reuters.

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