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Antitrust and Competition Life Sciences Quarterly Update Q2 2024

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To date, 2024 has not yet seen the type of mega-merger (Pfizer/Seagen) or level of agency enforcement (Sanofi/Maze or Amgen/Horizon) as 2023. But two notable investigations — one still active — show the Federal Trade...more

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Fifth EYLEA® Biosimilar FDA-Approved: Amgen’s Pavblu™ (aflibercept-ayyh)

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On August 23, 2024, the FDA approved Amgen’s Pavblu™ (aflibercept-ayyh) as the fifth biosimilar of Regeneron’s EYLEA® (aflibercept). Pavblu™ was approved with a skinny label that includes neovascular (wet) age-related macular...more

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FDA Approves Amgen’s BKEMV, the First Eculizumab Biosimilar

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​​​​​​​On May 28, 2024, the FDA approved Amgen’s BKEMV (eculizumab-aeeb), the first approved biosimilar of Alexion’s SOLIRIS (eculizumab).  BKEMV was approved by the FDA as a 300 mg/30 mL (10 mg/mL) injection, for intravenous...more

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Denosumab Biosimilar Updates - June 2024

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On May 21, Alvotech announced that it had entered into a license and supply agreement with Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories SA for the commercialization of AVT03, a proposed denosumab biosimilar. Denosumab, sold by Amgen under the...more

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Court Cancels Injunction Hearings In Aflibercept BPCIA Litigation; Regeneron May Seek Temporary Restraining Orders

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As we previously reported, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation recently granted Regeneron Pharmaceutical’s (“Regeneron”) motion to establish a multi-district litigation (“MDL”) for its aflibercept BPCIA litigation....more

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First Biosimilar and Interchangeable of Stelara® (ustekinumab) Approved in the U.S.

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On October 31, 2023, the FDA approved Amgen’s Wezlana™ (ustekinumab-auub) as the first biosimilar and interchangeable of Johnson & Johnson / Janssen’s Stelara® (ustekinumab).  In May 2023, Amgen and Janssen settled their...more

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Blockbuster Biologics Review | Issue 21

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Welcome to our quarterly update relating to biologics and biosimilars, including post-grant and patent litigation challenges to blockbuster biologics. Since the enactment of the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act...more

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The FTC "Settles" For a Conduct Consent Decree to Resolve Its Challenge to the Amgen-Horizon Merger

For years, the antitrust enforcement agencies have indicated their antipathy toward resolving competition issues in proposed mergers by entering into consent decrees that prohibit certain conduct, rather than stopping the...more

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FDA Approves Amgen’s RIABNI™ (Rituximab-arrx) for Adults With Moderate to Severe Rheumatoid Arthritis

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On June 6, 2022, Amgen announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Amgen’s RIABNI (rituximab-arrx), a biosimilar to Genentech’s RITUXAN®, in combination with methotrexate for treatment of moderate to...more

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‘The Sky is [Not] Falling,’ Federal Circuit Urges as it Continues to Dismantle Broad Pharmaceutical Patents

On June 21, 2021, the Federal Circuit denied Amgen’s petition for en banc review of the court’s February 2021 decision in Amgen Inc. et al. v. Sanofi, Aventisub LLC, et al., 987 F.3d 1080 (Fed. Cir. 2021), which found that...more

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Biosimilars 2020 Year in Review

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Introduction - The biosimilar pathway was designed to increase competition for biologics and reduce healthcare costs. Yet 2020 saw a slowdown in biosimilar activity with the lowest number of annual biosimilar approvals since...more

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Year in Review: Top-Five U.S. Biosimilar Market Developments of 2020

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As we ring in the new year, we look back at the top U.S. biosimilar market developments of 2020. Here are some of our highlights, in no particular order...more

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Amgen Inc. v. Amneal Pharms. LLC

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Case Name: Amgen Inc. v. Amneal Pharms. LLC, 2018-2414, 2019-1086, 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS (Fed. Cir. Jan. 7, 2020) (Circuit Judges Newman, Lourie, and Taranto presiding; Opinion by Lourie, J.) (Appeal from D. Del., Goldberg,...more

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Biosimilars Development Updates: Mylan’s Pipeline, Coherus’s Adalimumab aBLA, Amgen’s Eculizumab Biosimilar

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Mylan announced on its most recent quarterly earnings call that it expects to launch its rituximab and etanercept biosimilars in Europe later this year. In discussing Mylan’s biosimilars pipeline, Rajiv Malik, Mylan’s...more

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US Biosimilar Market Expands As BPCIA Turns 10

The 10th anniversary of the U.S. biosimilar pathway the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2009 (BPCIA) is quickly approaching and marks an expansion of the U.S. biosimilar market. The BPCIA, signed into law...more

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Federal Circuit Hears Argument Regarding the Denial of Genentech’s Motion to Preliminarily Enjoin Amgen’s Sales of Trastuzumab

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We previously reported on Genentech’s appeal of the district court’s denial of Genentech’s motion for a preliminary injunction against Amgen’s launch of trastuzumab. Today, a Federal Circuit panel (Judges Prost, Wallach, and...more

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EYLEA (Aflibercept) Biosimilar Development Updates

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Regeneron’s EYLEA (aflibercept) was approved by the U.S. FDA on November 18, 2011, and is indicated for the treatment of patients with Neovascular (Wet) Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD), Macular Edema following Retinal...more

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Biosimilars - 2019 Year in Review

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Introduction - In many ways, 2019 was a notable year for biosimilars in the U.S. FDA approved the 26th biosimilar product and the 13th biosimilar product was launched in the U.S. market. These developments were...more

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Biosimilars in 2020: What’s Ahead

The Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2009 (BPCIA) was passed as part of health reform signed into law by President Obama in March 2010. This year, the BPCIA turns 10. While the U.S. Biosimilars Pathway has...more

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Biosimilar Litigation Trends and Lessons Learned in 2019

It has been nearly 10 years since the U.S. Biosimilars Pathway (the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act) was enacted. The first biosimilar product in U.S. history was approved and launched in 2015. Ten biosimilars...more

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Year in Review: The Top-Five U.S. Biosimilar Market Developments of 2019

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As we start the new year, we look back at the top U.S. biosimilar market developments of 2019. Here are some of our highlights, in no particular order...more

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Safe Harbor Defense Under 35 U.S.C. §271(e)(1) Requires That the Accused Activity Is Solely for Uses Reasonably Related to...

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AMGEN INC. v. HOSPIRA, INC. Before Moore, Bryson, and Chen.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. Summary: Biological engineering activity that would otherwise constitute patent...more

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FDA Approves Amgen’s AVSOLA (infliximab-axxq)

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Today, the FDA approved Amgen’s AVSOLA (infliximab-axxq), a biosimilar to Janssen’s REMICADE. AVSOLA has the same approved indications label as its reference product....more

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Amgen and Kashiv Ask District Court to Dismiss Their Filgrastim Biosimilar Litigation

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On November 22, 2019, the parties in the Amgen v. Kashiv BPCIA litigation, concerning Kashiv’s proposed biosimilar of NEUPOGEN (filgrastim), submitted a stipulation of dismissal indicating that they have “agree[d] to the...more

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Amgen Inc. v. Amneal Pharms. LLC

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THE COURT DENIED DEFENDANT’S MOTION TO ENFORCE ITS SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT WITH PLAINTIFF AFTER THE AT-RISK LAUNCH AND SUBSEQUENT SETTLEMENT OF ANOTHER DEFENDANT. Case Name: Amgen Inc. v. Amneal Pharms. LLC, No. 16-853-MSG...more

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