The enactment of the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (“BPCIA”) in 2010 established for the first time ever in the US an abbreviated pathway for obtaining FDA approval of a new biological product that is deemed...more
7/14/2020
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Preliminary Injunctions
In borrowing a page from the '80s band "Men Without Hats," on June 12, 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court brought greater certainty for both biosimilar applicants and originator companies. In Sandoz Inc. v. Amgen Inc., the Supreme...more
7/19/2017
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Last month’s Supreme Court ruling in Sandoz v. Amgen brought greater certainty to both biosimilar applicants and originators in the United States. The July 2017 issue of Sterne Kessler’s...more
In Sandoz Inc. v. Amgen Inc., the Supreme Court brought greater certainty to two key issues relating to the “patent dance” under the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (BPCIA). First, the Court held that where a...more
6/13/2017
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Unfair Competition
The Federal Circuit on Tuesday ruled that the 180-day notice of commercial marketing provision of the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (BPCIA) is a requirement for all biosimilar applicants regardless of whether...more
7/8/2016
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Apotex ,
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Preliminary Injunctions
Since August 2015, Amgen and Apotex have been locked in litigation in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida related to Apotex’s pegfilgrastim product, which is purported to be biosimilar to Amgen’s...more
On August 6, 2015, Amgen sued Apotex in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida for patent infringement related to Apotex’s pegfilgrastim product, which is purported to be biosimilar to Neulasta®. What is...more
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit yesterday heard oral arguments on the applicability and interpretation of two key provisions of the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (BPCIA). Briefly, oral argument...more
6/5/2015
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Statutory Interpretation
On April 28, 2015, FDA released three final versions of guidance documents relating to biosimilars that were initially released in February 2012. One of the guidances provided Questions and Answers regarding implementation of...more
The Federal Circuit yesterday granted Amgen’s motion for a preliminary injunction to keep Sandoz’s biosimilar form of Neupogen off the market until the Court renders its decision on the merits of the appeal. The parties had...more
On April 14, 2015 the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) filed an amicus curiae brief with the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit1 in support of remand or reversal of the Amgen v. Sandoz lower court’s ruling that...more
In parallel with the district court case where Amgen is asserting that Sandoz has not complied with the BPCIA because they have not provided Amgen with a copy of their biosimilar application, in October 2014 Amgen filed a...more
On March 19, 2015, Judge Seeborg of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California denied Amgen Inc.’s motion for a preliminary injunction in the Amgen v. Sandoz case, thereby removing one more...more
3/23/2015
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Unfair Competition
On Friday, December 5, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rendered its decision in Sandoz v. Amgen, No. 2014-1693, a case with major implications for the emerging U.S. biosimilars industry. The decision...more
Sandoz announced yesterday that the FDA accepted its Biologics License Application (BLA) for filgrastim. This marks the first acceptance of a biosimilars application (351(k)) filed under the pathway created by the Biologics...more
Yesterday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration provided further clarity as to how it will evaluate applications for approval of biosimilars when it released a draft guidance document outlining the types of clinical...more