Metabolites violate patents

Adam sez, " Basically SmithKline is saying that [generic drug maker] Apotex can't make Paxil because at a crystalline level, contamination from them making another drug will cause
minute amounts of *their* patented drug to be produced as a side effect.
(the judge makes an observation that people will infringe upon the patent by
ingesting it even if Apotex was not)"

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(Thanks, Adam!)