Webinar: Orange Book listing sheets under the microscope
Key Considerations for Reshoring U.S. Drug Manufacturing
Drug Pricing Initiatives During the Trump Presidency
Podcast: IP Life Sciences Landscape: Aiding Orange and Purple Book Patent Owners in Developing PTAB Survival Skills
Patent law in Europe: What pharmaceutical companies need to know
EU excessive pricing laws
Polsinelli Podcast - Generic Drugs to Market - What's the Climate in 2014?
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
Today, the district court for the District of Delaware (Judge Connolly) granted the government’s motion for summary judgment on all claims brought by AstraZeneca in its Complaint challenging the Drug Price Negotiation Program...more
Ranges for Interdependent and Interactive Components Can Be Tricky to Derive - In Modernatx, Inc. v. Arbutus Biopharma Corporation, Appeal No. 20-2329, the Federal Circuit held that a presumption of obviousness based on...more
Symbicort® (budesonide and formoterol fumarate dihydrate) - Case Name: AstraZeneca AB v. Mylan Pharms. Inc., No. 1:18CV193, 2021 WL 798856 (N.D.W.V. Mar. 2, 2021) (Keeley, J.) - Drug Product and Patent(s)-in-Suit: Symbicort®...more
In Washington - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Republicans released the text of their “skinny” or “targeted” coronavirus relief bill. McConnell said a vote to proceed to the bill is expected Thursday....more
BECAUSE DELAWARE WAS AN IMPROPER VENUE FOR DEFENDANT MYLAN, AND DEFENDANT 3M DEMONSTRATED THAT VARIOUS FACTORS WEIGHED IN FAVOR OF A TRANSFER, THE CASE WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF WEST VIRGINIA. Case...more
Supreme Court of Canada strikes down "promise doctrine", upholds AstraZeneca’s NEXIUM patent as useful - As previously reported, on June 30, 2017, the Supreme Court of Canada granted AstraZeneca’s appeal in the NEXIUM...more
Case Name: AstraZeneca AB v. Aurobindo Pharma Ltd., 14-664-GMS, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 14647 (D. Del. Feb. 2, 2017) (Sleet, J.). Drug Product and Patent(s)-in-Suit: Onglyza® (saxagliptin) and Kombiglyze™ XR (saxaglibtin...more
Case Name: AstraZeneca AB v. Apotex Corp., 2014-1221, 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 5543 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 7, 2015) (Circuit Judges O’Malley, Clevenger, and Bryson presiding; Opinion by Bryson, J.) (Appeal from S.D.N.Y., Cote, J.) - ...more
Case Name: AstraZeneca LP v. Breath Ltd., 2015-1335, 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 7525 (Fed. Cir. May 7, 2015) - Drug Product and Patent(s)-in-Suit: Pulmicort Respules® (budesonide inhalation suspension); U.S. Patent No....more
Plaintiff Files Third Amended Antitrust Claim Against Highmark - A long running antitrust dispute in Western Pennsylvania continued on October 1, when a Pennsylvania hotel (Cole’s Wexford Hotel) filed a third amended...more
A classic example of product "evergreening" is how AstraZeneca used its experience with its omeprazole franchise (sold for over a decade as Prilosec®) to promote an alternative form of the drug, Nexium® (particularly, the...more