Ranbaxy and Teva announce generic Lipitor agreement

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Nasdaq: TEVA) announced today that pursuant to an agreement between its subsidiary, Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. and Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited ("Ranbaxy"), a portion of the profits from Ranbaxy's sales of Atorvastatin Calcium Tablets during Ranbaxy's 180-day first-to-file exclusivity period, will be paid to Teva.

Atorvastatin Calcium Tablets are the generic version of Pfizer's Lipitor® Tablets. Annual sales of Lipitor® were approximately $7.8 billion in the United States as of September 2011, based on IMS sales data.