Actavis Namenda case could trigger more 'product hopping' scrutiny
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
Actavis tried to persuade a three-judge panel from the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York on 13 April to lift an injunction imposed by a lower court preventing the company from pulling its twice-daily immediate-release version of its Alzheimer's dementia drug Namenda (memantine hydrochloride) from the US market in light of a more updated form of the medicine.