Podcast: IP Life Sciences Landscape: Aiding Orange and Purple Book Patent Owners in Developing PTAB Survival Skills
In October 2023, Teva Pharmaceuticals filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Amneal Pharmaceuticals alleging that their generic version of Teva’s ProAir® HFA inhaler infringed upon the asserted claims of U.S. Patent Nos....more
Appellate courts issued a variety of notable intellectual property (IP) cases in 2024, including cases touching on Orange Book listings, extraterritoriality, willful infringement, design patent obviousness, and public...more
As part of the Hatch-Waxman Act, given the lack of information on the allegedly infringing product, courts have found that patentees can satisfy the pleading requirements of Twombly/Iqbal without having access to the accused...more
Case Name: Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC v. Sandoz, Inc., No. 20-804-RGA, 2023 WL 4175334 (D. Del. June 26, 2023) (Andrews, J.) Drug Product and Patent(s)-in-Suit: Jevtana® (cabazitaxel); U.S. Patent No. 10,716,777 (“the ’777...more
Most judicial outcomes, particularly on appeal, are broadly based on varying combinations of process and outcome. The law is replete with process-based decisions (standing, jurisdiction, waiver, to name a few) and of course...more
Coreg® (carvedilol) - Case Name: GlaxoSmithKline LLC v. Teva Pharms. USA, Inc., No. 2018-1976, -2023 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 2, 2020) (Circuit Judges Prost, Newman, and Moore presiding; Opinion by Newman, J.; Dissent by Prost, C.J.)...more
A new California law, Preserving Access to Affordable Drugs, AB-824 (the Act), which is aimed at curbing reverse-payment patent settlements, took effect on January 1. The Act codifies a presumption that any transfer of value...more
THE COURT GRANTED PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION TO DISMISS DEFENDANT’S ANTITRUST AND PATENT MISUSE COUNTERCLAIMS AND RELATED AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSES. Case Name: Duke Univ. v. Akorn, Inc., Civ. No. 3:18-cv-14035-BRM-TJB, 2019 U.S. Dist....more
Case Name: Teva Pharms. USA, Inc. v. Sandoz Inc. (In re Copaxone Consol. Cases), 906 F.3d 1013, Fed. Cir. No. 2017-1575, 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 28751 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 12, 2018) (Circuit Judges Reyna, Bryson, and Stoll; Opinion...more
The Third Circuit recently affirmed the grant of summary judgment to GlaxoSmithKline (“GSK”) in the nearly 10-year-old Wellbutrin XL Antitrust Litigation, which challenged the lawfulness of settlement agreements resolving...more
On June 12, 2017, in a unanimous decision authored by Justice Thomas in Amgen Inc. v. Sandoz Inc., the United States Supreme Court considered the complex statutory scheme that attempts to expedite resolution of patent...more
The US Supreme Court this week held that the broad venue provision of 28 U.S.C. § 1391(c) does not apply to patent law—at least, when the defendant is a domestic entity. This decision arises after years of judicial...more
Case Name: GlaxoSmithKline LLC v. Teva Pharms. USA, Inc., Civ. No. 14-878-LPS-CJB, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 94438 (D. Del. July 20, 2016) (Burke, M.J.) - Drug Product and Patent(s)-in-Suit: Coreg® (carvedilol); U.S....more
On March 18, 2016, the Federal Circuit held that filing an abbreviated new drug application (“ANDA”) with the FDA for a generic drug product, and thus indicating an intention to sell that product in every state (including...more
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
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed an antitrust complaint this week against Endo Pharmaceuticals and several generic companies, alleging that these companies entered into anticompetitive “reverse payment” settlements of...more
In an opinion handed down Friday that will continue the trend of forum shopping, the Federal Circuit in Acorda Therapeutics Inc. v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 2015-1456, (Fed. Cir. 2016) held that the filing of an...more
On January 13, 2016, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC or the Commission) released an overview of the pharmaceutical patent settlements filed with the Commission in Fiscal Year 2014 (October 1, 2013 – September 30, 2014). The...more
On March 12, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana joined the District of Delaware and Eastern District of Texas as the first courts to consider a generic drug manufacturer’s motion to dismiss...more
In This Issue: - INTRODUCTION - WHAT ARE REVERSE PAYMENT SETTLEMENT AGREEMENTS? ..The Basic Framework of Hatch-Waxman Litigation ..The Federal Trade Commission’s View of Reverse Payment Settlements and Its...more