The U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Vanda Pharmaceuticals Case Over Sleep-Disorder Drug Patents

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a bid by Vanda Pharmaceuticals to revive patents for its sleep-disorder drug Hetlioz that were previously declared invalid in a dispute with generic drugmakers Teva and Apotex.

The justices turned away Vanda’s appeal of a ruling by the patent-focused U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit against the company, which in 2018 had sued Teva and Apotex in Delaware for patent infringement after they applied to make generic versions of Vanda’s Hetlioz, a circadian-rhythm drug used to treat rare sleep disorders.

In the case, the Supreme Court declined a chance to consider for the first time since 2007 when a patent can be invalidated as “obvious” based on earlier publications describing the same invention.

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