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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10413

7 July 2011
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GENERAL NEWS / (ae) eu/competition

06/07/2011 (Agence Europe) - Anti-trust investigation on Boehringer. On Wednesday 6 July, the European Commission closed an investigation begun in 2007 further to allegations brought by the Spanish pharmaceutical company, Almirall, against its German competitor, Boehringer Ingelheim. Almirall alleged that Boehringer Ingeheim had filed for unmeritous patents regarding new treatments of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a disease often caused by smoking. Almirall claimed that, by...

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