On Friday, December 16, 2022, Regeneron moved to dismiss Mylan’s inequitable conduct defense and counterclaim against two of the six patents asserted in the parties’ BPCIA suit concerning Mylan’s proposed biosimilar to EYLEA. As previously reported, Regeneron narrowed the twenty-four patents originally asserted against Mylan to six following the Northern…
As regular Big Molecule Watch readers know, the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (“BPCIA”) was signed into law as part of the Affordable Care Act on March 23, 2010, creating an abbreviated licensure pathway for “biosimilar” and “interchangeable” biological products. The BPCIA also introduced a new scheme to resolve…
As we previously reported, the Northern District of West Virginia ordered an expedited trial in Regeneron’s aflibercept BPCIA case against Mylan. Regeneron had asserted 24 patents in its complaint. As required by the court’s scheduling order, on October 28, Regeneron identified six patents for the first phase of the litigation. …
On June 28, 2019, Samsung Bioepis and Genentech filed a joint stipulation of dismissal of their BPCIA patent litigation concerning ONTRUZANT (trastuzumab-dttb), Samsung Bioepis’s biosimilar of HERCEPTIN that received FDA-approval earlier this year. According to the stipulation, the parties “have entered into a settlement agreement, and mutually agree to voluntarily dismiss…