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On September 3, 2024, Eli Lilly filed a complaint against the FDA in the District Court for the Southern District of Indiana pursuing the latest challenge to the FDA’s application of its “biological product”...more
On March 1, Eli Lilly was the first to announce U.S. list price reductions of 70% for its most commonly prescribed insulins and an expansion of its Insulin Value Program that caps patient out-of-pocket costs at $35 or less...more
On June 24, 2022, Innovent Biologics, Inc. and Eli Lilly and Company announced that the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) of China approved the supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for TYVYT (sintilimab) - a...more
On March 16, 2021, the United States District Court in Indiana granted plaintiff Eli Lilly’s request for a preliminary injunction to halt implementation of a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) rule published in...more
Alimta® (pemetrexed disodium) - Case Name: Eli Lilly & Co. v. Apotex, Inc., No. 2020-1328, 2020 WL 7490251 (Fed. Cir. Dec. 21, 2020) (Circuit Judges Prost, Bryson, and Stoll presiding; Opinion by Stoll, J.) (Appeal from...more
2020 has been referred to as an unprecedented year for the world in so many ways—the pandemic, the California and Washington fires, the racial justice protests and calls to action—but that didn’t stop the Federal Circuit from...more
Scientists, clinicians, and other investigators are discovering new uses for drugs previously known for different medical indications. Such “drug repurposing” (also called drug repositioning, profiling, or re-tasking) has...more
In this episode, Richard Church, Andrew Ruskin, and Victoria Hamscho discuss recent developments in the 340B Drug Pricing Program, including recent actions by drug manufacturers to limit contract pharmacy access to 340B...more
This week, the FDA approved LYUMJEV (insulin lispro-aabc), a new insulin lispro product by Lilly. LYUMJEV is a formulation of insulin lispro, developed to speed the absorption of insulin into the blood stream and reduce A1C...more
WHILE THE DISTRICT COURT’S FINDING OF LITERAL INFRINGEMENT WAS REVERSED, THE FEDERAL CIRCUIT AFFIRMED THE DISTRICT COURT’S FINDING OF INFRINGEMENT UNDER THE DOCTRINE OF EQUIVALENT BECAUSE THE NARROWING AMENDMENT WAS...more
On March 4, 2019, Eli Lilly announced that they will begin selling a lower-priced version of Humalog® (isulin lispro injection 100 units/mL) in the United States with a list price 50% lower than the current Humalog® list...more
Case Name: Eli Lilly & Co. v. Hospira, Inc., Civ. No. 12-3460-TWP-MPB, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 100550 (S.D. Ind. June 15, 2018) (Pratt, J.)....more
Case Name: Eli Lilly & Co. v. Dr. Reddy’s Labs., Ltd., Civ. No. 16-0308-TWP-MPB, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 104653 (S.D. Ind. June 22, 2018) (Pratt, J.). Drug Product and Patent(s)-in-Suit: Alimta® (pemetrexed disodium); U.S....more
An Update on Vanessa’s Law - This is a special update on the Protecting Canadians from Unsafe Drugs Act (Vanessa’s Law) which was approved on November 6, 2014 (as previously reported), amending the Food and Drugs Act...more
No Section 8 Liability for Valid and Infringed Patent in NEXIUM Proceeding - What happens when a patentee is unsuccessful in a prohibition application under the Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) (PMNOC)...more
In its decision of July 12, 2017 in Actavis v. Eli Lilly, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom for the first time formally adopted the concept of a doctrine of equivalents when considering what constituted an infringement...more
Case Name: Eli Lilly & Co. v. Dr. Reddy’s Labs., Ltd., Civ. No. 1:16-cv-00308-TWP-MPB, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 205578 (S.D. Ind. Dec. 14, 2017) (Pratt, J.)....more
Case Name: Eli Lilly and Co. v. Perrigo Co., No. 2016-2555, -2614, 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 23624 (Fed. Cir. Nov. 22, 2017) (Circuit judges Chen, Plager, and Hughes presiding; Opinion by Chen, J.) (Appeal from S.D. Ind., Barker,...more
Following last Friday’s (7 July 2017) unusual move of advance publication of the outcome of the case, the UK Supreme Court now published the reasons for its decision in the long-running Actavis v Eli Lilly case. The reasons...more
Federal Court of Appeal finds that Apotex did not fail to mitigate its damages in relation to Apo-Trazodone drug submission - On April 6, 2017, the Federal Court of Appeal overturned the Federal Court’s finding that...more
Case Name: Eli Lilly and Co. v. Teva Parenteral Medicines, Inc., No. 2015-2067, 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 555 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 12, 2017) (Circuit Judges Prost, Newman, and Dyk presiding; Opinion by Prost, C.J.) (Appeal from S.D....more
Can a patient’s action in taking a generic drug be attributable to a physician such that it can support a finding of the physician’s direct patent infringement? According to a recent precedential opinion of the Court of...more
In Eli Lilly & Co. v. Teva Parenteral Medicines, Inc., the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court decision finding infringement under Akamai of a two-step method of treatment when the prescribing information for the...more
Eli Lilly and Boehringer Ingelheim announced today that their insulin glargine injection product, Basaglar® (a follow-on biologic for Sanofi’s Lantus®), is now available by prescription in the U.S. Although Basaglar is...more
Federal Court of Appeal opines on the framework for analyzing obviousness-type double-patenting - On November 4, 2016, the Federal Court of Appeal dismissed Apotex’s appeal in Apotex Inc v Eli Lilly Canada Inc, 2016 FCA...more