Article: Judge Says Amgen Entitled to Permanent Injunction in EPO Case.

Byline: Jennifer Boggs, Assistant Managing Editor

A year after a jury ruled that F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.'s PEGylated erythropoietin (EPO) product, Mircera, infringed four of Amgen Inc.'s EPO patents, a District Court judge issued a decision upholding that verdict and said the Thousand Oaks, Calif.-based biotech is entitled to a permanent injunction to block Mircera sales in the U.S. market.

The court previously granted a preliminary injunction to prevent the commercialization of Mircera (methoxy polyethylene glycol-epoetin beta), which gained FDA clearance late last year in anemia associated with chronic kidney disease, and Roche has appealed.

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