On September 24, 2015, the Federal Circuit issued an opinion in Shire LLC v. Amneal Pharm., LLC. The opinion may be of interest to readers of this blog for its holding that a company supplying the active pharmaceutical ingredient to abbreviated new drug application (“ANDA”) filers (so that they can file…
In what appears to be the first time a drug patent has been so challenged, Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC, Par Pharmaceutical Inc., and Roxane Laboratories Inc. have asked the U.S. Patent Trials and Appeals Board to invalidate U.S. Patent No. 7,895,059, assigned to Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc., under the America Invents Act’s (AIA)…