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Calls for Removal of Device Patents Listed in the Orange Book Continue. FTC and Congressional action scrutinizing allegedly “improper” Orange Book listings continued apace in the first few months of 2024. ...more
On December 6, 2019, the Federal Circuit will hear oral argument in a rituximab-related appeal by Biogen. The appeal stems from a final written decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) in an inter partes review...more
On Monday, Magistrate Judge Lloret, who is visiting the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware from the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, granted Boehringer Ingelheims’s (“BI’s”) motion to compel discovery relating...more
AbbVie filed its opening claim construction brief in its litigation with Boehringer Ingelheim (BI). AbbVie asserted eight patents against BI. ...more
As we previously reported, currently pending before the Federal Circuit are consolidated appeals from five final written decisions of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (Board) in inter partes review (IPR) proceedings finding...more
There are presently seven biosimilar-related appeals pending before the Federal Circuit. Two of those appeals, Amgen v. Sandoz (Case No. 18-1551) and Amgen v. Coherus (Case No. 18-1993), are from district court judgments in...more
Below are recent updates in biosimilar-related IPR proceedings: GENERAL BIOLOGICS PATENTS - On December 1, 2017, the Board granted institution of four IPRs on Celltrion’s petitions (IPR2017-01373 and IPR2017-01374) and...more
As we previously reported, on August 2, 2017, AbbVie filed a complaint against Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware regarding BI’s aBLA for a biosimilar version of AbbVie’s Humira®...more
On September 28, 2017, both parties to the AbbVie v. Amgen litigation announced a settlement that resolves all intellectual property-related litigation over Amgen's FDA-approved adalimumab biosimilar AMGEVITA™/AMJEVITA™. ...more
The PTAB has been a busy place for biologics patents in the past few weeks. Here are some of the highlights...more
As we previously reported, last month AbbVie filed a complaint against Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware regarding BI’s aBLA for a biosimilar version of AbbVie’s Humira...more
Below is our summer update on the U.S. patent litigations concerning proposed or approved biosimilar products. For additional details, please consult our BPCIA Litigation Summary Chart or our previous quarterly updates...more
Today, Boehringer Ingelheim received FDA approval for Cyltezo®, its biosimilar to AbbVie’s Humira® (adalimumab). Cyltezo® is approved for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile idiopathic arthritis, psoriatic...more
Today, AbbVie filed a complaint against Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware regarding BI’s aBLA for a biosimilar version of AbbVie’s Humira (adalimumab) product. The complaint...more
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (the “Board”) issued a final written decision in an inter partes review determining Claims 1-5 of U.S. Patent No. 8,889,135 owned by Abbvie Biotechnology Ltd. unpatentable as obvious...more
On July 6, 2017, the PTAB issued two additional Final Written Decisions finding AbbVie’s U.S. Patent 8,889,135 (“the ‘135 patent”) unpatentable as obvious over the prior art. The Final Written Decisions were issued in...more
The UK Patents Court recently issued a judgement which referred four questions to the CJEU in the case Actavis Group v Boehringer Ingelheim that aim to clarify how the SPC Regulation ought to be interpreted in respect of...more
Actavis v Boehringer [2013] EWHC 2927 related to a dispute over the combination of telmisartan and hydrochlorothiazide, which was marketed by Boehringer and protected by an SPC. Actavis wanted to sell the combination product...more