Last week, the Federal Circuit issued a decision in Altaire Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Paragon Bioteck, in which the court held that Altaire had standing to appeal the PTAB’s final written decision in a post-grant review (“PGR”) of Paragon’s U.S. Patent No. 8,859,623 and reversed-in-part and vacated-in-part the PTAB’s Final Written Decision….
As we reported earlier this month, Coherus BioSciences recently resubmitted its application for CHS-1701, a proposed biosimilar to Neulasta® (pegfilgrastim), in response to a Complete Response Letter that it received from the FDA last June. Yesterday, Coherus announced that the FDA has accepted its pegfilgrastim resubmission and that the FDA considered…
On May 11, President Trump delivered remarks about his administration’s new plan to help lower drug prices. The President blamed “soaring drug prices” on “everyone involved in the broken system,” including “the drug makers, insurance companies, distributors, pharmacy benefit managers, and many others,” such as “middlemen,” “special interests” as well…
For just the tenth time since the implementation of the BPCIA, the FDA has approved a biosimilar product. Today, the FDA announced that it has approved Pfizer-subsidiary Hospira’s Retacrit™ (epoetin alfa-epbx) for the treatment of anemia caused by chronic kidney disease, chemotherapy, or use of zidovudine in patients with HIV…
Over the past few weeks, numerous biologics and biosimilar companies released their quarterly earnings for Q1 2018 and held related earnings calls. Below are some highlights: On April 17, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) reported a 22.5% year-over-year (YOY) decline in U.S. sales of Remicade® (infliximab), which it attributed “to increased discounts/rebates,…
Over the past week, biopharmaceutical developers from around the world provided updates on the development and availability of a number of biosimilar products and candidates. Below are some highlights. On May 2, Mundipharma, a global network of independent associated companies, announced that the trastuzumab biosimilar Herzuma® is now available in…
The past week saw further developments in the ongoing patent dispute between Janssen and Defendants Celltrion and Hospira relating to Inflectra® (infliximab-dyyb), a biosimilar of Remicade®. First, on May 4, Janssen and Defendants filed competing motions for summary judgment. Both sets of summary judgment papers are directed to the same issue:…
Today, the PTO announced proposed rulemaking to change the claim construction standard applied by the PTAB in IPR, PGR, and CBM proceedings. In particular, the PTO proposes replacing the broadest reasonable interpretation standard for construing unexpired patent claims with the standard applied in federal district courts and ITC proceedings as…
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC and Impax Laboratories, Inc. announced today that they have completed their business combination to form Amneal Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Amneal”). According to the press release, with the completion of this business combination, Amneal is now the 5th largest generics business in the United States. Amneal also states that,…
Last June, we reported that Coherus BioSciences had received a Complete Response Letter (CRL) from the FDA for CHS-1701, a proposed biosimilar to Neulasta® (pegfilgrastim). Later, in August, we reported that Coherus had anticipated resubmitting its BLA in response to the CRL. Today, Coherus announced that it has resubmitted its BLA…