TEVA DRUG APPROVAL JEOPARDIZED AFTER COURT VALIDATES EISAI PATENT

Eisai Co., Ltd., Japan's fourth largest drug company, received a boost yesterday after a US court ruled that a substance patent on its ulcer drug Aciphex was valid. The patent will expire in 2003. Globes (http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/DocView.asp?did=1000140547&fid=1725)