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The Federal Circuit has affirmed a district court’s decision granting a motion for summary judgment that the asserted claims of a dietary supplement patent are invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101. Under 35 U.S.C. § 101, - ...more
[co-author: Jamie Dohopolski] Last year, the continued global COVID-19 pandemic forced American courts to largely continue the procedures set in place in 2020. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit was no...more
On September 27, 2021, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice granted Pfizer’s motion for summary judgment and dismissed Apotex’s claims for treble damages and double costs under the Ontario and English Statutes of Monopolies,...more
Update: On September 15, 2021, ViiV applied to the Supreme Court of Canada for leave to appeal (Docket No. 39823). The Federal Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal by ViiV from a decision of the Federal Court granting...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit’s New Year’s eve opinion in Ball Metal v. Crown Packaging, though nonprecedential, raises important considerations for pharmaceutical and biologics patents – where patent...more
By Memorandum Opinion entered by The Honorable Leonard P. Stark in Osseo Imaging, LLC v. Planmeca USA Inc., Civil Action No. 17-1386-LPS (D.Del. October 28, 2020), the Court, inter alia, denied Defendant’s motion for summary...more
The PTAB Cannot Approve or Deny Certificates of Correction - In Honeywell International, Inc. v. Arkema Inc., Arkema France, Appeal Nos. 2018-1151, -1153, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“Board”) does not have the...more
Recently, in Sanofi-Aventis v. Mylan, 2:17-cv-09105-SRC-CLW, Judge Stanley Chesler of the United States District Court, District of New Jersey, denied a motion by defendant Mylan for summary judgment of invalidity of asserted...more
Patentees and inventors of cannabis compounds may be happy to learn a district court in Colorado recently held that, based on the record before it, U.S. Patent No. 9,730,911, entitled “Cannabis extracts and methods of...more
On January 18, 2019, in Amgen v. Sanofi, the ongoing litigation concerning Sanofi and Regeneron’s Praluent® (alirocumab) product, Judge Andrews of the District of Delaware denied Sanofi’s motion for summary judgment that the...more
This motion arose in the context of a section 8 action in which Apotex claims damages for delay in the issuance of its notice of compliance for its generic lansoprazole product (Takeda's PREVACID), due to prohibition...more
As previously reported, the amended Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations (“Regulations”) came into force on September 21, 2017, heralding significant changes to the landscape for pharmaceutical companies in...more
As we previously reported, the district court granted Sandoz’s motion for summary judgment of non-infringement in the ongoing Amgen v. Sandoz litigation, which relates to Sandoz’s filgrastim and pegfilgrastim biosimilars....more
As we reported here, in the patent dispute between Janssen and Defendants Celltrion and Hospira relating to Inflectra® (infliximab-dyyb), a biosimilar of Remicade®, there are multiple motions for summary judgment pending...more
Five years after the U.S. Supreme Court found in FTC v. Actavis, 570 U.S. 136 (2013), that large and unjustified payments from a brand pharmaceutical manufacturer to prevent generic entry can provide a basis for an antitrust...more
As we previously reported, Sanofi-Aventis sued Merck Sharp & Dohme in the District of Delaware for patent infringement based on Merck’s proposed follow-on biologics of Sanofi-Aventis’s Lantus® and Lantus® SoloSTAR® ([rDNA...more
The past week saw further developments in the ongoing patent dispute between Janssen and Defendants Celltrion and Hospira relating to Inflectra® (infliximab-dyyb), a biosimilar of Remicade®. First, on May 4, Janssen and...more
Today, Sandoz announced that its biosimilar of Neulasta® (pegfilgrastim) has been accepted by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for regulatory review. According to the press release, the data package submitted as part of...more
A hearing on summary judgment on infringement of claim 1 of U.S. Patent No. 8,722,631 for the biosimilar version of etanercept has been set for next month before Judge Claire C. Cecchi....more
We reported earlier this week that the district court in Amgen v. Hospira denied Hospira’s motion for summary judgment of non-infringement of its proposed biosimilar of Epogen®/Procrit® (epoetin alfa) and granted-in-part and...more
Last week, Hospira filed a motion for summary judgment of non-infringement asserting that “all of Hospira’s accused erythropoietin drug substance batches are protected by the safe harbor provisions of 35 U.S.C. § 271(e)(1)...more
With the U.S. biosimilar pathway created by the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (BPCIA) now fully up and running, there are now seven ongoing biosimilar litigations in the U.S. Here are brief updates on recent...more
A few BPCIA litigation updates to wrap up the week for our readers, looking ahead to next week: ..The Federal Circuit issued its formal mandate in Amgen v. Apotex yesterday. With the issuance of the formal mandate, the...more