Vectura said this week that it has settled a U.S. patent infringement litigation with GlaxoSmithKline and was awarded $89.7 million in damages.

Following a jury trial in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, Ventura was awarded damages for the period from August 2016 through December 2018 for an infringement on Vectura’s U.S. patent 8303991 by sales of three of GlaxoSmithKline’s Ellipta products. The jury found that Vectura had proven that GlaxoSmithKline had infringed claim 3 of patent ‘991.

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