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Drugmaker Eli Lilly convinced a federal judge in Massachusetts on Tuesday to overturn a $176.5 million jury verdict for Teva Pharmaceutical that found Lilly’s migraine drug Emgality infringed three patents related to Teva’s rival drug Ajovy.

Eli Lilly’s head-to-head CHALLENGE-MIG trial missed its primary endpoint Friday, failing to establish the statistical superiority of the company’s Emgality (galcanezumab-gnlm) over Pfizer’s Nurtec orally disintegrating tablets (rimegepant).

Eli Lilly & Co. must pay Teva Pharmaceuticals International GmbH $176.5 million after a trial to determine whether its migraine drug Emgality infringed three Teva patents, a Boston federal court jury decided on Wednesday.

For all its forays elsewhere, diabetes remains the bedrock of Lilly’s business – and, if the Mounjaro launch goes as hoped, will continue to be so for a long time to come.