Zyprexa patent litigation
Executive Summary
Lilly expects "a trial date to be scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2003" for consolidated patent litigation related to its antipsychotic Zyprexa, company says in second quarter 10-Q filing with Securities & Exchange Commission. Lilly filed an infringement suit against Zenith in Indianapolis federal court last year over an olanzapine patent set to expire in 2011; Ivax was "first to file" an ANDA for olanzapine in February 2001 (1"The Pink Sheet" Feb. 26, 2001, p. 32). Lilly was notified that Dr. Reddy's also filed an ANDA covering additional dosage forms of olanzapine in May 2001 and January 2002. "In February 2002, we filed an infringement suit in the same court based on Reddy's later ANDA. The Zenith and Reddy cases have been consolidated and are in the discovery stage," Lilly says...