For Viagra Maker Pfizer, What Goes Up Doesn't Come Down (Until 2019)

The excitement levels of Pfizer execs likely went way up (and remained there for some time) after a federal judge upheld a U.S. patent for the company’s anti-impotence pill, Viagra, on Friday.

The company, the world’s largest drug maker, gets to remain the exclusive manufacturer of the drug into 2019, reports the Wall Street Journal. U.S. Judge Rebecca Beach Smith in Federal court in Norfolk, Virginia (Virginia is for lovers, you know) ruled that Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. could not produce a generic version of the drug, the Journal reports.Continue reading...