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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Federal Circuit: Supplementation of aBLA Does Not Trigger New Notice of Commercial Marketing Obligations

The Federal Circuit held that supplemental applications submitted to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to further support approval of a biosimilar product under Section 262(k) of the Biologics Price Competition and...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

Federal Circuit Rules that BPCIA Preempts State Law Biosimilars Claims

In an opinion issued on December 14, 2017, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that the 2010 Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (“BPCIA”) preempts the use of state law to penalize...more

Perkins Coie

Federal Circuit Rules Out State-Law Remedies for Failure to Participate in the Biosimilars "Patent Dance"

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On December 14, the Federal Circuit issued a decision that further clarifies the ground rules for disclosures of product information by manufacturers of biosimilar pharmaceutical products. In particular, the Federal Circuit...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Courts Answer Key Questions Over the Reach of the BPCIA

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Since the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2009 (BPCIA) was signed into law in 2010, only a small handful of abbreviated Biologics Licensing Applications (“aBLAs”) have been filed and of those the FDA has...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Amgen Inc. v. Apotex Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2016)

Last year, the Federal Circuit described the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act ("BPCIA") as "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside of an enigma" in the Amgen v. Sandoz case. Nevertheless, one of the provisions of...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

MBHB Snippets: A review of developments in Intellectual Property Law - Volume 14, Issue 2 (Spring 2016)

Pre-AIA and Post-AIA Issues Presented by the On-Sale Bar - The “on-sale” bar to patentability refers to a sale or offer for sale of an invention that can invalidate the patent for that invention. The...more

Goodwin

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

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Does the "Notice of Commercial Marketing" Provision in the BPCIA Stand Alone? -- Amgen v. Apotex Case Preview

According to the Federal Circuit website, the appeal from the Amgen Inc. v. Apotex Inc. case will be argued on April 4, 2016 in Courtroom 402. This case is an appeal from a decision by Judge Cohn of the Southern District of...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Apotex Follows the BPCIA “Patent Dance” Again

The first biosimilar makers to file regulatory applications with FDA attempted to bypass all or a subset of the patent litigation provisions of the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2009 (BPCIA). Apotex, the...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Amgen v. Sandoz – Did the Federal Circuit Just Doom the New Biosimilar Approval Pathway?

Congress passed the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (“BPCIA”) in 2009 in an effort to bring biosimilar drug products to market. The goal was for the BPCIA to mimic for biologic drugs the Hatch-Waxman statute...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

"Don't Stop the Dance"[*] -- The Dissents-in-Part from Amgen v. Sandoz

As we have been reporting this week, the Federal Circuit handed down its decision in Amgen Inc. v. Sandoz Inc. -- a case of first impression relating to the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act ("BPCIA") for...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Federal Circuit Issues Its First Decision Interpreting BPCIA

The courts must “say what the law is,” even when that law, as Judge Lourie described the BPCIA, is “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” Today, in Amgen Inc. v. Sandoz Inc., No. 2015-1499 (Fed. Cir. July 23,...more

Knobbe Martens

Alert: Fractured Federal Circuit Provides Guidance on Biosimilars Patent Dance

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Both Sides Come Away with Wins in Amgen v. Sandoz - Yesterday, in Amgen, Inc. v. Sandoz, Inc., the Federal Circuit construed multiple provisions of the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2009 (“BPCIA”). ...more

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