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Latest Federal Court Cases - August 2021 #5

MLC Intellectual Property, LLC v. Micron Technology, Inc., Appeal No. 2020-1413 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 26, 2021) - For those interested in an important Section 112 written description case, we recommend reading the Juno...more

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New Federal Court Guidelines for Complex Proceedings consolidate and update previous guidelines

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Update: The Federal Court updated the Guidelines on May 18, 2021, which can be found here. The Federal Court has released a new consolidated practice direction, Case and Trial Management Guidelines for Complex...more

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Latest Federal Court Cases - November 2020 #3

C.R. Bard Inc. v. AngioDynamics, Inc., Appeal No. 2019-1756, -1934 (Fed. Cir. Nov. 10, 2020) - Our Case of the Week is one of two cases decided this week in which the Federal Circuit finds that a district court jumped the...more

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[Virtual Event] Paragraph IV on Virtual Trial - COVID-19 Edition - August 20th, 8:45 am - 6:00 pm EDT

Join us for a one-day virtual event for Counsel for Hatch-Waxman Litigators. While COVID-19 prevented us from meeting in person this April in NYC, we are pleased to announce a special one-day virtual event Paragraph IV on...more

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District Court Postpones Trial in Amgen v. Hospira Filgrastim Biosimilar Litigation

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As we previously reported, Amgen sued Pfizer and its affiliate Hospira in July 2018 based on Hospira’s submission of an aBLA for a biosimilar of NEULASTA (filgrastim). That same month, Pfizer obtained FDA-approval and, in...more

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Immunex and Samsung Bioepis Seek to Stay Etanercept Biosimilar Litigation

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This week, in the Immunex v. Samsung Bioepis BPCIA litigation regarding ETICOVO (etanercept-ykro), Samsung Bioepis’s biosimilar of ENBREL, the New Jersey district court entered a Consent Injunction Order that prohibits...more

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Amended PMNOC Regulations: First Anniversary Update

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As previously reported, the amended Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations (“Regulations”) came into force on September 21, 2017, heralding significant changes to the landscape for pharmaceutical companies in...more

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More Discovery Rulings in AbbVie v. BI

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We previously reported on discovery disputes in the adalimumab litigation between AbbVie and Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) pending before the District of Delaware. Earlier this month, Judge Lloret issued an order on additional...more

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Scheduling Order Entered in Amgen v. Adello Filgrastim Biosimilar Litigation

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Today, the district court entered a scheduling order in the Amgen v. Adello BPCIA litigation concerning Adello’s aBLA for a biosimilar of Neupogen® (filgrastim). The scheduling order is generally consistent with the joint...more

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Federal Circuit Review - May 2018

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Priority Claims Cannot Be Incorporated by Reference - In Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. West-Ward Pharmaceuticals International Limited, Appeal Nos. 2016-2707 and 2016-2708, the Federal Circuit held that when a patent for a...more

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Updates On Discovery Rulings in AbbVie v. BI Adalimumab Litigation

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We have recently reported on multiple discovery rulings in the ongoing AbbVie v. Boehringer Ingelheim litigation concerning Boehringer Ingelheims’s (“BI’s”) aBLA for Cyltezo™ (adalimumab-adbm), a biosimilar version of...more

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High Court of Australia Settles Principles for Preliminary Discovery

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The Situation: Pfizer, a pharmaceutical manufacturer, brought an application for preliminary discovery of certain confidential documents belonging to Samsung Bioepis ("SB"), a competitor, believing those documents would...more

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Additional Discovery: Must Be More Than Mere Possibility

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The PTAB recently denied a motion for additional discovery that sought the production of documents argued to be relevant to inventorship. In Watson Laboratories, Inc. v. United Therapeutics, Corp., Case IPR2017-01621 and...more

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Rx IP Update - April 2018

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Standing Committee on Health proposes National Pharmacare program, modifications to prescription and generic drug pricing - While common among member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development...more

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PTAB Revokes Filing Privileges For Repeated Rules Violations

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In September 2017, Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe moved to dismiss six instituted trials on petitions filed by Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. Those petitions challenged six patents that, at the time the petitions were filed, belonged...more

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Janssen v. Celltrion: CAFC & District Court Litigation Update

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As we previously reported last year, in the ongoing Janssen v. Celltrion litigation concerning Celltrion’s Inflectra®, a biosimilar of Janssen’s Remicade® (infliximab), Janssen appealed the district court’s partial final...more

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Amgen v. Coherus: Coherus Files Reply in Support of Motion to Stay

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As we have previously reported, on July 25th, Coherus filed a motion to stay discovery pending the result of its motion to dismiss in its litigation against Amgen regarding pegfilgrastim, and Amgen filed an opposition on...more

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Federal Circuit Suggests Solution to Patent Owner’s Dilemma When Applicant for Biosimilar Product Refuses Discovery

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In Amgen, Inc. v. Hospira, Inc., Appeal No. 2016-2179 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 10, 2017), the Federal Circuit suggested what an owner of a reference product suing an applicant for a biosimilar under the Biologics Price Competition and...more

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Federal Circuit Finds Regeneron Transgenic Mouse Patent Invalid For Inequitable Conduct With Intent Inferred From Litigation...

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In a 38 page decision with a 19 page dissent by Judge Newman, the Federal Circuit determined that Regeneron’s transgenic mouse patent is unenforceable due to inequitable conduct. The decision was rendered in Regeneron...more

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Update: Coherus’ Motion to Stay Discovery in Amgen v. Coherus

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Earlier this week Coherus filed a motion to stay the BPICA litigation brought by Amgen in the District of Delaware, arguing that in light of the FDA’s complete response letter delaying the launch of Coherus’ pegfilgrastim...more

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Par’s Hatch-Waxman Claims Too Speculative and Discovery Requests Too Broad

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The recent decision from the New Jersey District Court in Par Pharmaceutical, Inc. v. Luitpold Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Civ. No. 16-02290 (WHW)(CLW) (D.N.J. April 24, 2017) provides an interesting look at the boundaries of...more

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Canadian IP law and practice in 2016: reviewing the highlights

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As the calendar turns the page from 2016 to 2017, we take the opportunity to review Canadian IP law and practice highlights from the past year....more

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Amgen’s Appeal of District Court Discovery Rulings in Amgen v. Hospira

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As we covered in a previous post, the Court in Amgen v. Hospira ruled on some novel issues relating to litigation under the BPCIA during a hearing on discovery issues a few months ago. Background: To recap: this...more

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Amgen v. Hospira: Court Considers Issues Regarding the Scope of Discovery and the RPS’s Ability to Assert Additional Patents in...

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In a recent hearing held in Amgen v. Hospira, the parties offered arguments on some novel issues relating to litigation under the BPCIA, particularly: - ..Whether a reference product sponsor (“RPS”) can compel a...more

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Stay Versus Stay: How Litigation Stays Pending IPRs Impact the 30-Month Regulatory Stay in Hatch-Waxman Litigation

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Upon initiation of a patent infringement action between branded and generic pharmaceutical companies, the Hatch-Waxman Act (21 U.S.C. § 355(j)) provides for an automatic 30-month stay of Food and Drug Administration approval...more

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