On August 19, 2009
                
             
                  
                        
                           
                      
                                                                
                               
                               
                               
                                
                                                            Is Merck’s Singulair Patent a Fraud? Suit Lays Out Timeline of Omissions
Patent litigation is usually dull stuff, but the case filed by several wholesale pharmacies against Merck over its Singulair patent is a doozy. It describes in detail how Merck allegedly defrauded the Patent Trademark Office by hiding the fact that the idea for Singulair did not spring from its labs but from four published articles that Merck failed to mention in its application for the patent.

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