Sssssh! Merck Wins Action -- But Don't Tell Anyone

Drug maker Merck & Co. Inc. has won a case to keep rival SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals Co. from selling a chicken pox vaccine in the United States and Canada for three years. It's just hard to know why. Trade secrets were at stake, so the opinion filed Aug. 5 was sealed. Merck went to court almost three years ago to complain that SmithKline, located in Philadelphia, had misappropriated and misused trade secrets, thereby damaging its marketing prospects for the vaccine sold under the name Varivax.

Drug maker Merck & Co. Inc. has won a Chancery Court case to keep rival SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals Co. from selling a chicken pox vaccine in the United States and Canada for three years.

It’s just hard to know why.

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