Antibacterial Agents

Patents of leading antibiotics expire, will constrain the antibacterial market

Published in Medical Patent Law Weekly, February 7th, 2007

Decision Resources finds that the patent expiries of several key antibiotic products, including drugs from Johnson & Johnson, Sanofi-Aventis, Daiichi-Sankyo, Merck, Abbott, AstraZeneca, and Wyeth, will significantly constraint the antibacterial drug market over the next decade.

The new Pharmacor report Emerging Antibacterial Agents finds that Johnson & Johnson's Levaquin, Sanofi-Aventis's Tavanic, Daiichi-Sankyo's Cravit, Merck's Primaxin, Abbott's Omnicef, AstraZeneca's Merrem, and Wyeth's Zosyn together generated more than $4 billion in sales in 2005. All of these drugs, which represented more than 20% of the entire antibacterial drug market in 2005, will lose patent...

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Source: Medical Patent Law Weekly (2007-02-07)

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