Gilead Sciences Inc.’s once impermeable defense of its hepatitis C medications has been cracked.

Merck & Co. Inc. won a jury verdict of validity Tuesday on two patents covering the key ingredient in the blockbuster drugs Sovaldi and Harvoni. Gilead isn’t contesting infringement, and the trial proceeded to a damages phase Tuesday afternoon before U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman of the Northern District of California.

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