US Appeals Court Denies Genentech Injunction Over Amgen's 'At Risk' Trastuzumab Launch
Executive Summary
Genentech has been denied its request for a US injunction against Amgen over its at-risk launch of a trastuzumab biosimilar rival to Herceptin.
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