Slayback Wins Tribunal Review of ‘Lumity’ Eye Drop Patents

May 19, 2022, 4:03 PM UTC

Slayback Pharma LLC has convinced an administrative tribunal to review two patents related to Bausch & Lomb Inc.’s Lumify eye drops.

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board instituted inter partes review of the patents Wednesday. The board said Slayback “established a reasonable likelihood” the patents’ claims are invalid because they cover inventions that aren’t new or were obvious.

Final validity decisions are expected within 12 months.

Princeton, New Jersey-based Slayback is seeking regulatory approval to sell a generic version of Lumify, a red eye treatment. Slayback asked the PTAB to review U.S. Patent Nos. 9,259,425 and 8,293,742 after it ...

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