Actavis to sell generic Yaz birth control after ruling

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Actavis to sell generic Yaz birth control after ruling

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pharmaceutical company Actavis Inc said on Tuesday that it would once again sell a generic version of Bayer AG's Yaz after an appeals court ruled that Bayer's patent for the oral contraceptive was invalid. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled on Tuesday that a U.S. District Court in Nevada erred last March in finding the patent to be valid. It reversed the ruling. Actavis had launched its generic competitor in January 2012, but took it off pharmacists' shelves after the ruling in Nevada. ...

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