Bayer AG (XETRA:BAYGN.DE - News) won the dismissal on Wednesday of U.S. antitrust claims by Sandoz Inc over Bayer’s popular Yaz and Yasmin birth control pills, the final claims in the three-year-old Manhattan case. U.S. District Judge Paul Gardephe said Sandoz failed to show that Bayer monopolized the U.S. oral contraceptive market, citing evidence Germany’s largest drugmaker had a 29 percent share, below the 50 percent Sandoz estimated. “Sandoz’s allegations concerning its attempted monopolization claim are conclusory and speculative,” he wrote.
