metaxalone

He also prescribed two abortive medications to take when the headache was bad: metaxalone, a muscle relaxant, and Midrin, a combination of several medicines.

Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011

He also prescribed two abortive medications to take when the headache was bad: metaxalone, a muscle relaxant, and Midrin, a combination of several medicines.

Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011

In a highly publicized case, King Pharmaceuticals brought an action against Eon Labs on patents relating to methods of informing patients about and administering the muscle relaxant metaxalone - marketed by King under the brand name "Skelaxin®" - with food.

EDNY Nixes Therapeutic Pharma Patent Using Bilski Peter Zura 2009

The fact that King discovered a naturally occurring side effect to the known practice of administering metaxalone with food does not entitle it to a valid patent . . .

EDNY Nixes Therapeutic Pharma Patent Using Bilski Peter Zura 2009

The claim fails this test, because the act of informing another person of the food effect of metaxalone does not transform the metaxalone into a different state or thing . . .

EDNY Nixes Therapeutic Pharma Patent Using Bilski Peter Zura 2009

A method of increasing the oral bioavailability of metaxalone to a patient receiving metaxalone therapy comprising administering to the patient a therapeutically effective amount of metaxalone in a pharmaceutical composition with food.

EDNY Nixes Therapeutic Pharma Patent Using Bilski Peter Zura 2009

Specifically, Eon claimed that claims reciting the features of "informing the patient that the administration of metaxalone with food results in . . . compared to administration without food" did not distinguish certain claims from the prior art, and rendered other claims unpatentable.

EDNY Nixes Therapeutic Pharma Patent Using Bilski Peter Zura 2009

Here, the overarching purpose of both the prior art and claim 1 is to treat effectively musculoskeletal disorders with metaxalone.

EDNY Nixes Therapeutic Pharma Patent Using Bilski Peter Zura 2009

For over forty years it has been known to give metaxalone with food.

EDNY Nixes Therapeutic Pharma Patent Using Bilski Peter Zura 2009

Likewise here, the prior art's failure to recognize that taking metaxalone with food also increased bioavailability does not make it a new method.

EDNY Nixes Therapeutic Pharma Patent Using Bilski Peter Zura 2009