US International Trade Commission determines legal dispute between GSK and Novartis should go to trial
Basel, 11 June 2003 - The US International Trade Commission (ITC) has decided that the legal dispute in the US between GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Novartis concerning the strain used to manufacture the antibiotic AmoxC (amoxicillin/clavulanic acid) should go to trial. Previously, on 9 April 2003, an ITC Administrative Law Judge had ruled against further proceedings and dismissed claims against certain Novartis Group companies on the basis that the strain lost any trade secrecy protection that it may have had when GSK entered into a prior settlement agreement with Novartis' subsidiary Biochemie. However, the ITC remanded the decision for further proceedings on the grounds that there are issues of fact that must be determined at trial.
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