LONDON Thu Apr 3, 2014 12:31pm EDT
<span id="articleText"/>LONDON (Reuters) - AbbVie, one of the two U.S. firms bringing an injunction against Europe's drugs regulator over the issue of trial data secrecy, said on Thursday it had withdrawn its lawsuit.
<span id="midArticle_0"/>AbbVie, a pharmaceutical company, had sought an injunction in March last year to block Europe's medicines regulator from releasing "confidential" and "commercially-sensitive" information on its blockbuster rheumatoid arthritis drug.
<span id="midArticle_1"/>AbbVie said on Thursday the European Medicines Agency had accepted a new set of redacted documents submitted by the company, along with the company's rationale for removing certain confidential information.
<span id="midArticle_2"/>As a result, AbbVie withdrew its lawsuit.
<span id="midArticle_3"/>The lawsuit against AbbVie and another U.S. drugmaker InterMune had turned into a high-profile fight over drug trial data.
<span id="midArticle_4"/>Researchers and patient groups want access to this raw data to improve third-party scrutiny and stress-test claims about drugs. But many companies fear that this will damage their businesses and undermine the ability to defend patents.
<span id="midArticle_5"/>(Reporting by Kate Holton. Editing by Jane Merriman)
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<span id="articleText"/>LONDON (Reuters) - AbbVie, one of the two U.S. firms bringing an injunction against Europe's drugs regulator over the issue of trial data secrecy, said on Thursday it had withdrawn its lawsuit.
<span id="midArticle_0"/>AbbVie, a pharmaceutical company, had sought an injunction in March last year to block Europe's medicines regulator from releasing "confidential" and "commercially-sensitive" information on its blockbuster rheumatoid arthritis drug.
<span id="midArticle_1"/>AbbVie said on Thursday the European Medicines Agency had accepted a new set of redacted documents submitted by the company, along with the company's rationale for removing certain confidential information.
<span id="midArticle_2"/>As a result, AbbVie withdrew its lawsuit.
<span id="midArticle_3"/>The lawsuit against AbbVie and another U.S. drugmaker InterMune had turned into a high-profile fight over drug trial data.
<span id="midArticle_4"/>Researchers and patient groups want access to this raw data to improve third-party scrutiny and stress-test claims about drugs. But many companies fear that this will damage their businesses and undermine the ability to defend patents.
<span id="midArticle_5"/>(Reporting by Kate Holton. Editing by Jane Merriman)
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