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Personal Jurisdiction Biosimilars Patent Litigation

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Distribution of Biosimilar Pharmaceuticals Through Third Parties is Not Enough to Avoid Personal Jurisdiction

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In Regeneron Pharms., Inc. v. Mylan Pharms. Inc., the Federal Circuit recently held that biosimilar pharmaceutical companies that filed abbreviated Biologics License Applications (aBLAs) and planned to make a single sale to a...more

Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP

The Precedent:  Federal Circuit Adds Clarity to Personal Jurisdiction and Obviousness-Type Double Patenting Analyses in Regeneron...

In this edition of The Precedent, we outline the decision in Regeneron Pharms., Inc. v. Mylan Pharms. Inc. In Regeneron Pharms., Inc. v. Mylan Pharms. Inc., the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s grant of a...more

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Personal Jurisdiction Considerations for International Biosimilars Companies

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The Federal Circuit recently issued decisions in a pair of appeals that provide guidance about when international filers of abbreviated Biologics License Applications (aBLAs) are subject to jurisdiction in the United States....more

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Federal Circuit Affirms Finding Of Personal Jurisdiction And Preliminary Injunction Against Biosimilar Applicants

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On January 29, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the grant of a preliminary injunction by the Northern District of West Virginia in favor of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. against Samsung...more

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

Personal Jurisdiction Over Foreign Companies that File an ANDA or aBLA in the U.S.

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

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Regeneron’s Disputes with Celltrion, Samsung Bioepis, and Formcycon on Service and Personal Jurisdiction in Aflibercept BPCIA...

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As we have previously reported, in November 2023 Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Regeneron”) filed complaints against Celltrion,  Samsung Bioepis and Formycon (collectively, “the Defendants”) in the U.S. District Court for...more

Goodwin

Litigation Update: AbbVie v. Alvotech hf (Adalimumab)

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We have previously reported on AbbVie’s first and second wave suits against Alvotech hf (Alvotech) in the Northern District of Illinois regarding an adalimumab biosimilar. In the first wave suit, on October 5, 2021 AbbVie...more

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In Hatch-Waxman litigation, Federal Circuit restricts venue under the TC Heartland to districts relating to ANDA filings

On November 5, 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in Valeant Pharmaceuticals N. Am. LLC v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc., No. 19-2402, resolved a split among district courts over what constitutes...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Valeant Pharmaceuticals North America LLC v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2020)

Somewhat remarkably, there is no settled Federal Circuit precedent regarding where a patentee can bring suit against a generic competitor in Hatch-Waxman litigation under 35 U.S.C. § 271(e)(2).  While recognizing that this...more

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Federal Circuit Narrows Venue for Patent Infringement Suits Under the Hatch-Waxman Act

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The Federal Circuit Thursday issued a decision that narrows the venue options available to patent owners bringing suit against generic drug manufacturers under the Hatch-Waxman Act. In a unanimous decision, the court held...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

Practical Issues for the Pharmaceutical and Biopharmaceutical Industry in the Wake of TC Heartland

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

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Section 337 Actions at the ITC: another forum for pharma and biosimilars litigation?

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With the growing volume of biosimilar and pharma litigation in district courts and before the PTAB, the U.S. International Trade Commission may emerge as another forum for patent holders against imported biosimilars. Section...more

McDermott Will & Emery

ANDA Update - October 2015

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Federal Circuit Interprets Statutory Requirements for Biosimilar Regulatory Pathway - Amgen Inc., v. Sandoz Inc., (Fed. Cir. July 21, 2015): In a case of first impression, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal...more

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