On March 13, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a five-year patent term extension (“PTE”) for Merck’s sugammadex patent, holding that the district court had correctly calculated PTE based on the...more
3/20/2025
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Appeals ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Hatch-Waxman ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent Reissue Applications ,
Patent Term Extensions ,
Patent Terms ,
Patents ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
USPTO
On January 29, 2025, the Federal Circuit issued paired decisions addressing Samsung Bioepis’s (“SB”) and Formycon AG’s (“Formycon”) appeals of preliminary injunctions entered in ongoing aflibercept biosimilar litigations with...more
1/31/2025
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Appeals ,
Biosimilars ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Foreign Corporations ,
Generic Drugs ,
Hatch-Waxman ,
Life Sciences ,
Marketing ,
Patent Litigation ,
Personal Jurisdiction ,
Pharmaceutical Patents ,
Preliminary Injunctions
On September 27, 2022, Judge Richard Andrews of the District of Delaware granted Novartis’s motion to dismiss declaratory judgment (“DJ”) counterclaims raised by two generic drug manufacturers in the ongoing litigation...more