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Biogen Announces Approval for Biosimilar of Amgen’s Enbrel

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Biogen Inc. announced this past Saturday that the European Commission has approved Samsung Bioepis’s proposed biosimilar of Amgen’s Enbrel (etanercept). Enbrel is a biologic drug used to treat five different inflammatory conditions, including rheumatoid arthritis, plaque psoriasis, and psoriatic arthritis. This is the first biosimilar of Enbrel approved in Europe….

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UK Patents Court Invalidates Genentech Herceptin Patent

On June 24, 2015, the UK’s High Court of Justice Patents Court invalidated a Genentech patent (EP 1037926 (“the ’926 patent”)) for the combined use of Herceptin (trastuzumab) in combination with the chemotherapeutic taxane for treatment of HER2-positive breast cancer.  Hospira brought this action as part of a series of patent…

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