On February 28, 2025, the FDA approved Celltrion’s Stoboclo® / Osenvelt® (denosumab-bmwo) as the third company to receive FDA approval of biosimilars of Amgen’s Prolia® / Xgeva® (denosumab). ...more
Case Name: Astellas Pharma, Inc. v. Sandoz Inc., Nos. 2023-2032, 2023-2063, 2023-2089, 2024 WL 4219374 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 18, 2024) (Circuit Judges Lourie, Prost, and Reyna presiding; Opinion by Lourie, J.) (Appeal from D....more
Approval of Accord’s Trastuzumab Biosimilar: On September 18, 2024, Accord announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a 420 mg dosage of HERCESSI (trastuzumab-strf), a biosimilar to Genentech’s HERCEPTIN...more
On August 12, 2024, Sandoz announced the FDA approval of Enzeevu™ (aflibercept-abzv) as the fourth biosimilar of Regeneron’s EYLEA® (aflibercept). Enzeevu™ was approved as provisionally interchangeable, subject to the...more
The English High Court has held that a patent relating to a once-daily dosing of an active ingredient was invalid for lack of inventive step over prior art posters presented to the public at conferences. The decision has been...more
On March 5, 2024, the FDA approved Sandoz’s Jubbonti® and Wyost® (denosumab-bddz) as the first biosimilars of Amgen’s Prolia® and Xgeva® (denosumab). The launch date for these biosimilars has not been announced as Amgen and...more
On January 22, 2024, Sandoz announced its plans to acquire the U.S. biosimilar ranibizumab CIMERLI (ranibizumab-eqrn) from Coherus BioSciences, Inc. (“Coherus”) for an upfront cash purchase payment of USD 170 million. The...more
Case Name: Amgen Inc. v. Sandoz Inc., Nos. 2022-1147, 2022-1149, 2022-1150, 2022-1151, 2023 WL 2994166 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 19, 2023) (Circuit Judges Lourie, Cunningham, and Stark presiding; Opinion by Lourie, J.) (Appeal from...more
In the last week, seven adalimumab biosimilars referencing HUMIRA entered the U.S. market: Boehringer Ingelheim’s CYLTEZO (adalimumab-adbm); Sandoz’s HYRIMOZ (adalimumab-adaz); Organon and Samsung Bioepis’s HADLIMA...more
Biogen seeks a preliminary injunction in its BPCIA case against Sandoz related to Sandoz’s proposed biosimilar of TYSABRI (natalizumab). On October 20, 2022, the Court issued a sealed order on the parties’ joint...more
On September 9, 2022, Biogen filed a complaint in the District of Delaware against Sandoz and Polpharma Biologics. Biogen’s complaint is filed under seal. Based on the list of 28 asserted patents, the case appears to...more
Sandoz announced this week that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted the first-ever biologics license application (BLA) for a proposed natalizumab biosimilar to Biogen’s TYSABRI®. The proposed natalizumab...more
On May 31, 2022, Sandoz announced the launch of a new global initiative called “Act4Biosimilars” to help address health inequity and inequality worldwide. Act4Biosimilars aims to increase patient access to advanced medicines...more
September 21, 2021 marked the fourth anniversary of the significant amendments to the Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations (Regulations). This article provides an update on activities in the fourth year...more
On May 24, 2021, Zydus Cadila launched the world’s first antibody drug conjugate (ADC) biosimilar. The drug is a trastuzumab emtansine biosimilar - using Genentech’s Kadcyla as the reference product - that will be marketed...more
On May 3, 2021, Sandoz announced that it will begin enrolling patients in MYLIGHT, a clinical Phase III confirmatory efficacy and safety study for its proposed biosimilar to Regeneron’s EYLEA (aflibercept) product. EYLEA is...more
On February 15, 2021, Celltrion Healthcare announced that the European Commission granted marketing authorization for Yuflyma™ (CT-P17), an adalimumab biosimilar, on February 11, 2021. Yuflyma™ was approved across all...more
Last week, the Federal Circuit denied Sandoz’s petition for an en banc rehearing of its precedential July 1st panel decision upholding two of Immunex’s patents covering Enbrel®... ...more
Last week, Lupin and Mylan announced that the European Commission had granted marketing authorization for their biosimilar Nepexto (etanercept) for all indications of the reference product. The marketing authorization follows...more
Yesterday, Mylan N.V. and Biocon Ltd. announced the U.S. launch of OGIVRI (trastuzumab-dkst), a biosimilar to HERCEPTIN (trastuzumab). According to the press release, “OGIVRI™ is approved for all indications of...more
September 21, 2019 was the second anniversary of the coming into force of the amended Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations (Regulations) heralding significant changes to the landscape for pharmaceutical...more
Earlier this week, Sandoz announced the launch of its adalimumab biosimilar, HYRIMOZ, in 40-mg doses for subcutaneous injection in either a syringe or prefilled pen, in Spain. As we reported earlier, Sandoz previously...more
Amgen, Sandoz, Samsung and Mylan all launched adalimumab biosimilars in Europe this past October. On October 16, 2018, Amgen has announced that its adalimumab biosimilar AMGEVITA launched in European markets....more
Amgen has announced that its adalimumab biosimilar AMGEVITA launched yesterday in European markets. This is Amgen’s first “inflammation” biosimilar to launch in Europe, and its second biosimilar to launch in Europe overall. ...more
Last week the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (“CHMP”) of the European Medicines Agency (“EMA”) recommended two biosimilar medicines for approval. First, the CHMP adopted a positive opinion for the marketing...more