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Federal Circuit: Patent Must Claim Active Ingredient for Orange Book Listing

On December 20, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a significant ruling in the Teva v. Amneal case following oral arguments before the Federal Circuit, which we discussed in our previous article. ...more

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Stop-Gap Spending Bill Provision Takes Aim at Biologics Patent Litigation

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UPDATE: The stop-gap spending bill has been revised to remove the provision discussed herein. However, life sciences companies should nonetheless take note of efforts by congress to enact patent-related reforms such as this....more

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Factors Courts Commonly Consider When Deciding Motions to Transfer in ANDA Litigation

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Where the Operative Facts Occurred - In assessing this primary factor, courts have looked to the location of defendant’s principal place of business, where the ANDA application was prepared, and where the ANDA product was...more

McCarter & English, LLP

Drug Delivery Device Patents Removed from Orange Book

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The listing of patents in the Orange Book has an important role in intellectual property protection for pharmaceuticals. Patents listed in the Orange Book can include, without question, patents covering compositions or...more

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What is the IP Risk Profile in AI Drug Discovery?

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The scientific benefits and legal risks of AI-driven drug discovery are consequential. But recent IP law decisions allude to a general concept that IP rights will not be awarded if AI completely or significantly replaces...more

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USA: Unpacking the shift – Heightened antitrust scrutiny on Orange Book listings

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Forty years ago, Congress passed the Hatch-Waxman Act, which streamlined the generic drug approval process and revamped how patent infringement claims would be litigated against those prospective generic drug applicants. At...more

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AI in Drug Discovery: 2025 Outlook

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Looking forward to the 2025 prediction season, a survey of the emerging AI-powered drug discovery landscape has been making the rounds—and with good reason. The survey, summarized by Stanford’s Chris Bradbury, is likely the...more

McDermott Will & Emery

The Devil Is in the Details: Bioequivalence, In Vitro Testing Not Enough to Establish Infringement

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Addressing for the first time the issue of whether bioequivalence data and in vitro testing can show that an abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) product with different immediate and delayed release portions infringed on a...more

Venable LLP

Spotlight On: Enbrel® (etanercept) / Erelzi® (etanercept-szzs) / Eticovo® (etanercept-ykro) - December 2024

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Etanercept Challenged Claim Types in IPR and Litigation: Claims include those challenged in litigations and IPRs. Claims are counted in each litigation and IPR, so claims from the same patent challenged in multiple...more

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Spotlight On: Neulasta® (pegfilgrastim) / Fulphila® (pegfilgrastim-jmdb) / Udenyca® (pegfilgrastim-cbqv) / Ziextenzo®...

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Pegfilgrastim Challenged Claim Types in IPR and Litigation: Claims include those challenged in litigations and IPRs. Claims are counted in each litigation and IPR, so claims from the same patent challenged in multiple...more

Smart & Biggar

Federal Court finds patent ineligible for listing against SNDS

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In Bayer Inc v Amgen Canada Inc, 2024 FC 1849, the Court granted a motion brought by Amgen for a declaration that Canadian Patent No. 3,007,276 (276 patent) was ineligible for inclusion on the Patent Register and that the...more

Venable LLP

Spotlight On: Actemra® (tocilizumab) / Tofidence™ (tocilizumab-bavi) / Tyenne® (tocilizumab-aazg) - December 2024

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Tocilizumab Challenged Claim Types in IPRs: Claims are counted in each IPR, so claims from the same patent challenged in multiple IPRs are counted more than once. Within each IPR, claims are counted only once, whether they...more

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Spotlight On: Herceptin® (trastuzumab) / Ogivri® (trastuzumab-dkst) / Herzuma® (trastuzumab-pkrb) / Ontruzant® (trastuzumab-dttb)...

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Trastuzumab Challenged Claim Types in IPR and Litigation: Claims include those challenged in litigations and IPRs. Claims are counted in each litigation and IPR, so claims from the same patent challenged in multiple...more

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Troubling Trend of “Self” Revocation In the CRISPR Space Continues in Europe

Less than two months after CVC made the surprising move to revoke two of its seminal European CRISPR patents, Sigma-Aldrich has done it too. While the facts that led to Sigma’s “self” revocation may be different than CVC’s,...more

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Recent Biologics Deals - December 2024

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Duality Biologics and GSK enter into an exclusive option agreement to exploit gastrointestinal cancer target, DB-1324 - On December 4, 2024, Duality Biologics (“DualityBio”), a clinical-stage biotech company focusing on...more

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Spotlight On: Biosimilar Litigations - December 2024

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Biosimilar Litigations include litigations relating to biosimilar/follow-on products of CDER-listed reference products. Litigations between biosimilar applicants/manufacturers and reference product sponsors as well as...more

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Spotlight On: Humira® (adalimumab) / Amjevita™ (adalimumab-atto) / Cyltezo® (adalimumab-adbm) / Hyrimoz™ (adalimumab-adaz) /...

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Adalimumab Challenged Claim Types in IPR and Litigation: Claims include those challenged in litigations and IPRs. Claims are counted in each litigation and IPR, so claims from the same patent challenged in multiple...more

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Spotlight On: Rituxan® (rituximab) / Truxima® (rituximab-abbs) / Ruxience® (rituximab-pvvr) / Riabni™ (rituximab-arrx) - December...

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Rituximab Challenged Claim Types in IPR and Litigation: Claims include those challenged in litigations and IPRs. Claims are counted in each litigation and IPR, so claims from the same patent challenged in multiple...more

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Spotlight On: Lantus® / Lantus® SoloSTAR® (insulin glargine recombinant) / Basaglar® (insulin glargine) / Semglee® (insulin...

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Insulin Glargine Challenged Claim Types in IPR and Litigation: Claims include those challenged in litigations and IPRs. Claims are counted in each litigation and IPR, so claims from the same patent challenged in multiple...more

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Biosimilar Updates: EYLEA® IPR Filings, Herceptin® Biosimilar Hercessi™ Launch, Stelara® Biosimilar Yesintek™ Approval

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On November 20, 2024, Samsung Bioepis filed IPR2025-00176 against Regeneron’s U.S. Patent No. 11,084,865 (“the ’865 patent”), challenging as obvious 48 claims (claims 1-12, 14-17, 19-20, 22-36, 39-42, 44-45, and 47-55)...more

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FCA sets aside PMPRB’s order that Galderma’s patent claiming 0.3% adapalene “pertained to” 0.1% adapalene DIFFERIN

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On December 3, 2024, the Federal Court of Appeal (FCA) set aside the order of the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB or Board) that had required Galderma to continue to provide information to the PMPRB in relation...more

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Update on Pending Denosumab BPCIA Litigations

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There are four pending BPCIA litigations brought by Amgen against biosimilar companies seeking to market denosumab biosimilars. Two of the four cases are pending in the District Court for the District of New Jersey before...more

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Patent Term Extension For Medical Devices

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Patent term extension (PTE) under 35 U.S.C. § 156 is a statutory program that restores to a patent at least a portion of the term that was effectively lost while the covered product was undergoing regulatory review and could...more

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Generic not required to address patent submitted before ANDS filing but listed after

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On November 20, 2024, the Federal Court dismissed EMD Serono (Serono)’s judicial review of the Minister of Health’s decision to list Canadian Patent No. 3,087,419 (419 Patent) on the Patent Register one week after it was...more

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Federal Court denies motion to add infringement counterclaim to ustekinumab impeachment action

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After filing a new drug submission for its ustekinumab biosimilar PYZCHIVA (Janssen’s STELARA), Samsung commenced the underlying action against Janssen for impeachment of Canadian Patent No. 3,113,837. Janssen sought to add a...more

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