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Barr Gets Letter Closing Ciprofloxacin Settlement Review by States
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, January 15th, 2002
Barr Laboratories, Inc., (BRL) has been notified by the Texas Office of Attorney General that the state Attorney General's investigation into Barr's ciprofloxacin settlement agreement is closed. Texas served as the lead state on behalf of a group of state Attorneys General who had requested information on the company's 1997 agreement with Bayer AG that ended a challenge of the patents related to the antibiotic Cipro.
"We were confident that upon a thorough review of information related to this case, the Attorney General would find that there was no reason to continue to investigate the settlement and no further action needed to be taken," said Martin Zeiger, senior...
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