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White & Case LLP

Three Drug Pricing Litigation Issues to Watch in the Second Half of 2024

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It has been a busy year for issues related to drug pricing, and with the election around the corner, litigation issues that have been developing over the last few years are likely to be a key focus for the second half of...more

Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

Crossing the Blurred Line Between Brands and Generics

Clients often ask if a law firm can represent both brand and generic drug manufacturers. It’s a reasonable question, particularly when the popular perception is that potential conflicts pigeonhole law firms, forcing them to...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

FTC Alleges Improper Orange Book Listing of Drug Delivery Device Patents

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In the latest attempt to promote generic drug competition and reduce drug prices, and consistent with broader efforts to enforce the antitrust laws more aggressively, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced on November...more

McDermott Will & Emery

‘Pay-for-Delay’ Agreements can be Restrictions of Competition by their very Nature

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On 25 March 2021 the European Court of Justice (ECJ) dismissed all the appeals brought by Danish pharmaceutical company H. Lundbeck A/S (Lundbeck) and five generic manufacturers against the judgments of the General Court of...more

King & Spalding

GSK v. Teva and Induced Infringement by AB-Rated Generics: Where Are We Now?

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The Federal Circuit’s October 2020 split decision in GSK v. Teva made waves throughout the pharmaceutical industry and among Hatch-Waxman litigators.  In the broadest reading, some see the majority opinion as rendering any...more

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Big Pharma under fire over quality, safety, and patents on costly brand drugs

When Big Pharma insists its sky-high prices are justified, patients may want to keep in mind key findings just revealed about prescription drugs and their makers...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Clear Disavowal in Specification Can’t Be Remedied by Non-Material Change in Claims

Addressing an appeal from four related actions concerning Orange Book patents covering Suboxone® sublingual film, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s judgments that certain generic...more

Hogan Lovells

EU SPC Manufacturing Waiver Now in Force

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The SPC Manufacturing Waiver (the "Waiver") is now in force, effective from 1 July 2019 (Regulation 2019/933 amending the SPC Regulation 2009/469).  The Waiver has been introduced with the stated aim of putting EU generic and...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Just Because It’s Written Doesn’t Mean It’s Descriptive

Addressing the validity of patents involved in a Hatch-Waxman litigation, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that claims were invalid for lack of an adequate written description because the specification...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Challenging Drug Patents: Does AIDS Healthcare Raise an “Actual Controversy”?

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Manufacturers who want to introduce generic drugs face a special delay and enjoy a corresponding special right to challenge patents on branded drugs based on the great compromise in the Hatch-Waxman Act. ...more

Holland & Knight LLP

AndroGel Litigation Finally Ready for Trial, But Plaintiffs’ Paths to Proving Causation Curtailed

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Five years after the U.S. Supreme Court found in FTC v. Actavis, 570 U.S. 136 (2013), that large and unjustified payments from a brand pharmaceutical manufacturer to prevent generic entry can provide a basis for an antitrust...more

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New Reverse-Payment Decision Sheds Further Light on Plaintiffs’ Causation Burden

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As post-Actavis antitrust litigation over so-called “reverse payment” patent settlements proceeds, courts continue to provide further illumination about what evidence a private plaintiff would need to offer to survive summary...more

Burr & Forman

Lowered Risk for Inventors Who Use Contract Product Development or Manufacturing

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On July 11, in The Medicines Company v. Hospira, Inc., the Federal Circuit held that a contract manufacturer's sale of manufacturing services to an inventor did not constitute a commercial sale of the patented invention for...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

En Banc: Federal Circuit Provides Guidance on Application of On-Sale Bar to Contract Manufacturers

Pharmaceutical and biotech companies breathed a sigh of relief Monday when the Federal Circuit unanimously ruled in a precedential opinion that the mere sale of manufacturing services to create embodiments of a patented...more

Troutman Pepper

Federal Circuit Finds That Use of a Contract Manufacturer Does Not Trigger the On-Sale Bar Provision

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The court’s decision provides insight into which activities trigger the on-sale bar provision. On July 11, in The Medicines Co. v. Hospira, Inc., No. 14-1469 (Fed. Cir. July 11, 2016), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Are Drug Prices Really Too High?

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Those working in the pharmaceutical space are used to hearing complaints about the high costs of drugs, and patents often are blamed for allowing pharmaceutical companies to charge “too much” for their products. But are drug...more

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Contract Manufacturing Makes Angiomax Patents Invalid Under On Sale Bar

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In The Medicines Company v. Hospira, Inc., the Federal Circuit held that a transaction with a contract manufacturer gave rise to an on sale bar that invalidated The Medicines Company’s Angiomax® patents. Are the facts of this...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

GPhA Issues Statement Regarding Proposed IP Provisions of Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement

The Generic Pharmaceutical Association (GPhA) issued a statement today regarding ongoing talks between major Pacific Rim countries (including the U.S.) related to the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. This trade...more

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