Germany’s Bayer (BAYN: DE) has started legal proceedings in Russia, filling a lawsuit against a local drugmaker Nativa, which registered a generic of Bayer’s anticancer drug prior to the expiration of the patent for the original drug, according to representatives of the German company.
The subject of the lawsuit is Bayer’s Nexavar, as well as its active substance sorafenib, reports The Pharma Letter’s local correspondent. The terms of their patents due to expire in 2022 and 2026 respectively.
In its lawsuit Bayer asks the Arbitration Court of the Moscow region to impose a ban on the production and sales of the generic, produced by Nativa.
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