Duramed Fails to Win Temporary Injunction Halting Generic Seasonique Pending Appeal

In a loss for Duramed Pharmaceuticals Inc. (now known as Teva Women’s Health Inc.), a federal appeals court July 27 said that the company was not entitled to a temporary injunction preventing Watson Laboratories Inc. from launching a generic copy of the branded contraceptive pill, Seasonique (Duramed Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. Watson Laboratories Inc., Fed. Cir., 2011-1438, 7/27/11).

In June, in a nonprecedential order in the case, Judge Pauline Newman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit had granted Duramed’s emergency motion for a temporary injunction that barred Watson from launching a generic, pending the ...