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New FDA clinical trials guidances promote efficient drug development, innovative designs, diversity

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued this week three guidance documents related to clinical trials: a draft guidance on multiregional trials in oncology, a draft guidance on integrating randomized controlled...more

FDA promotes user fee waiver options for combination products

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a revision of its final guidance on “Application User Fees for Combination Products,” replacing guidance of the same name from 2005. The revision modernizes the guidance...more

FDA signals potential shift toward interchangeability for all biosimilars

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently released a podcast on biosimilars, featuring Dr. Sarah Yim, director of FDA’s Office of Therapeutic Biologics and Biosimilars (OTBB), that seems to indicate a potential...more

FTC disputes new slate of Orange Book patents for weight loss, diabetes, asthma, and COPD drugs

On April 30, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it sent a new set of warning letters to ten pharmaceutical companies. The letters inform the companies that the FTC has notified the Food and Drug...more

FTC challenges around 100 FDA Orange Book patent listings

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it issued warning letters to 10 drug manufacturers and challenged the Orange Book listings for around 100 patents under the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA)...more

FDA MIE pilot hints at expanding regulatory paradigm for bioequivalence

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) generic drug program has launched a new pilot program to offer meeting opportunities to generic drug applicants who intend to use model-integrated evidence (MIE) approaches to...more

SCOTUS won’t hear Teva v. GSK: Where does that leave us on FDA labeling carve-outs?

The Supreme Court of the United States has denied certiorari in the Teva v. GSK “skinny labeling” case, leaving intact the Federal Circuit’s August 2021 decision, which we summarized online here. In the article below, we...more

FDA finalizes guidance on Orphan Drug “sameness” of gene therapies

Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Office of Orphan Product Development published the four-page final guidance “Interpreting Sameness of Gene Therapy Products Under the Orphan Drug Regulations,” which...more

FDA seeks comments on how to transition approved drug products to device status under Genus - Major regulatory changes for imaging...

On August 9, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a notice announcing its implementation of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit’s April 2021 decision in Genus Medical Technologies LLC v. U.S. Food...more

Federal court limits FDA discretion in “drug” vs. “device” classification

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit recently decided in Genus Medical Technologies LLC v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration that, when classifying a biomedical product as either a “drug” or a “device,” FDA does not...more

Biden signs bill limiting new drug exclusivity awards to innovations in active moiety

On April 23, U.S. President Biden signed into law two bills meant to lower prescription drug prices by limiting new drug exclusivity awards and promoting biosimilars. ...more

Life Sciences and Health Care Horizons - 2021

Companies in the life sciences and health care industry, like most companies, navigated unparalleled challenges in 2020. But unlike other industries, they had to do so while simultaneously facing the biggest challenge of all...more

New Orange & Purple Book laws increase transparency of patent information for drugs, biologics

On January 5, 2021, President Trump signed into law H.R. 1503, the "Orange Book Transparency Act of 2020," which amends provisions governing the types of patents and exclusivity-related information for approved drugs listed...more

FDA quietly withdraws plans for a Devices Referencing Drugs regulatory approval pathway

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently withdrew its plans for a “Devices Referencing Drugs” (DRD) regulatory approval pathway, which it had proposed in September 2017....more

HHS announces public meeting on ways to accelerate clinical innovation

Government seeks industry comment on expediting medical product development - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Immediate Office of the Secretary (IOS) has announced it will hold a public meeting...more

FDA guidance may ease path to biosimilar interchangeability

On Friday, FDA published the final guidance, “Considerations in Demonstrating Interchangeability With a Reference Product,” which is intended to assist sponsors in demonstrating that a biosimilar product is interchangeable...more

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