The patent relates to the field of orally administrable pharmaceutical dosage units such as soft chews, especially for administration to non-human animals.
Chews comprising pamoic acid or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof can be easily processed in forming machines and therefore facilitates manufacturing such soft chews on an industrial scale.
Brief outline of the case
The patent was revoked as the OD came to the conclusion that claim 1 of the MR filed during opposition was infringing Art 123(2).