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Troutman Pepper

California AG Reaches Settlement With Biotech Company Over Marketing of Its Genetic Testing

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On September 25, California Attorney General (AG) Rob Bonta announced a settlement with Biora Therapeutics, Inc. (Biora) regarding misleading claims the company made concerning the cost of its genetic testing services. Under...more

BakerHostetler

Challenge to the FDA's Approval of Abortion Medication

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On Friday, April 7, both the Northern District of Texas and the Eastern District of Washington issued decisions impacting the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of the abortion drug mifepristone. The Texas decision...more

Goodwin

A Tale of Two Lawsuits: Federal Court in Texas Suspends FDA Approval of Medication Abortion Drug Mifepristone Nationwide, While...

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The US Supreme Court’s June 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization — which overturned Roe v. Wade and nearly 50 years of a federal constitutional right to abortion — has had a tectonic impact. Less than...more

Cozen O'Connor

Opioid Fallout: Ad Agency Sued For Allegedly Helping Purdue Deceptively Market OxyContin

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Massachusetts AG Maura Healey sued healthcare marketing company Publicis Health, LLC (“Publicis”) under a theory of public nuisance and for violations of Massachusetts’s consumer protection law over Publicis’s alleged role in...more

Smart & Biggar

Federal Court denies stay of decision issuing NOC for RUZURGI

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On September 30, 2020, the Federal Court dismissed an application by Catalyst Pharmaceuticals Inc (Catalyst) and KYE Pharmaceuticals Inc (KYE) (collectively, the applicants) for an interlocutory injunction to stay the...more

Kilpatrick

RICO class actions: D.N.J. rejects claim for private injunctive relief under Federal RICO

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Takeaway: The issue of whether a federal RICO plaintiff may obtain equitable relief may be the longest-running circuit split under the federal RICO statute. In Scheidler v.National Organization for Women, 537 U.S. 393 (2003),...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

US-China Trade Agreement - Pharma impacts

President Trump has signed Phase I of a much anticipated multi-part trade agreement between the United States and China with provisions that will aid the branded pharmaceutical industry. One of the main goals of the agreement...more

Dechert LLP

The Third Circuit Clips the Federal Trade Commission’s Wings in FTC v. Shire ViroPharma

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On February 25, 2019, the Third Circuit held that the Federal Trade Commission cannot bring litigation in federal court based on past conduct, absent factual allegations demonstrating that a defendant “is violating or is...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Third Circuit Holds FTC Must Show Defendants Are ‘About to Violate’ the Law for Injunctive Relief and Disgorgement

On February 25, 2019, in FTC v. Shire ViroPharma, Inc., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit confirmed that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) cannot plead its way into federal court via Section 13(b) of the FTC...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

A Patent for Personalized Medicine Survives §101 Challenge at the Federal Circuit and Will Exclude Generic Drugs from the Market...

On April 13, 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a decision in Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. West-Ward Pharmaceuticals Int’l Ltd upholding the validity of U.S. Patent 8,586,610 (“the ’610...more

Hogan Lovells

Hogan Lovells Moscow Life Sciences team secures major win in a precedent patent case for Novartis against a generic producer in...

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Led by partner Natalia Gulyaeva, the Hogan Lovells Moscow team represented Novartis in a precedent case for pharma business proving that one can obtain an injunction using patent rights against a generic in Russia before the...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Nixing Nationwide Class Action Claims: Federal Court Ruling Provides Blueprint For Businesses

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Seyfarth Synopsis: In a nationwide consumer fraud class action involving false labeling claims under various state laws, a federal district court in Illinois granted the company’s motion to dismiss claims relative to a...more

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U.S. Argues Amgen’s State Law Claim Preempted by BPCIA, Supporting Sandoz

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Yesterday, in the remanded appeal in Amgen v. Sandoz, the United States submitted an amicus brief to the Federal Circuit that generally supports Sandoz’s position that Amgen’s state-law claim for an injunction under...more

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Amgen v. Sandoz: Federal Circuit Vacates Opinion and Mandate, Reinstates Appeal, Orders Further Briefing on Remanded Issues

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As we previously reported, following the Supreme Court’s decision in Sandoz v. Amgen, Sandoz requested a remand to the District Court to answer the two questions that the Supreme Court had remanded to the Federal Circuit,...more

Mintz

Second Circuit: “C” is for Comity; Price Fixing Judgement Against Chinese Vitamin C Sellers Reversed

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Last week, in In re Vitamin C Antitrust Litigation, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (“Second Circuit”) vacated a $147 million jury award against Chinese vitamin C sellers Hebei Welcome Pharmaceutical Co. and...more

Williams Mullen

Biosimilar “Patent Dance” Does Not Permit Sidestepping of 180-Day Notice

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On July 5, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Federal Circuit) unanimously ruled in Amgen v. Apotex that biosimilar makers must provide brand-name rivals with a 180-day notice only after receipt of...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Janssen Seeks Injunction Against Remicade Biosimilar Based On Cell Culture Patent

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In a complaint filed June 14, 2016, Janssen Biotech Inc. seeks a preliminary injunction that would bar Celltrion and Hospira from selling the biosimilar version of Remicade® (infliximab) that received FDA approval April 2016,...more

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Senate Judiciary Introduces CREATES Act To Expedite Access To Affordable Drugs

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Following months of public outcry and Congressional probes into significant drug price increases, the Senate Judiciary Committee introduced legislation targeting “behavior that blocks competition and delays the creation of...more

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Amarin Pharma Settles First Amendment Claims Against FDA: Potential Implications

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Irish drug company Amarin Pharma, Inc. (Amarin) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) agreed, on March 8, 2016, to settle claims that FDA regulations barring Amarin from making “truthful” and “non-misleading”...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again: FDA Sued Again in Off-Label Promotion Case

To quote the late Yogi Berra, it must feel like déjà vu all over again for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (or, if you prefer, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s song, “Déjà Vu” (“We have all been here before”)). Fresh off...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Third Circuit Rejects Presumption of Irreparable Harm for Injunctive Relief under Lanham Act

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Following a series of recent appellate decisions across the spectrum of intellectual property disciplines, including the fields of patent, copyright and trade secrets, the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled that...more

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