The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (“NICE”) released guidance today establishing a preference for lower-cost biosimilars for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. NICE is an agency that provides cost-effectiveness and other guidance to the National Health Service (“NHS”) and other British public health services. The guidance document released today provides…
February will be a busy month for pending BPCIA cases, with activity on the horizon in Amgen v. Apotex, Amgen v. Hospira, and Janssen v. Celltrion: Amgen v. Apotex (Fed. Cir.) As we covered previously, Apotex appealed the district court’s order granting Amgen a preliminary injunction in Amgen v. Apotex. Apotex requested an expedited briefing…
On January 11th, Sorrento Therapeutics announced that its partner, MabTech Ltd., had successfully completed Phase III clinical trials in China for two drugs: STI-001, a biosimilar of Eli Lilly’s Erbitux (cetuximab), and STI-002, a biosimilar of Janssen Biotech’s Remicade (infliximab). Both STI-001 and STI-002 met their primary endpoints in confirmatory,…
On December 7 Samsung Bioepis and Merck announced that Samsung Bioepis had received approval for its RENFLEXIS product by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety in Korea. RENFLEXIS, a biosimilar version of Janssen Biotech’s Remicade (infliximab), was approved for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative…
After winning a preliminary injunction in Amgen v. Apotex, Amgen now hopes to capitalize on that win in another pending BPCIA case, Amgen v. Hospira, which is being litigated in the District of Delaware. Amgen filed a notice of supplemental authority in the Hospira case citing the Florida District Court’s order in Apotex in an attempt to provide further support for…
As we have written about extensively, here, here, and here, the Federal Circuit recently interpreted two key provisions of the BPCIA in Amgen v. Sandoz. Three cases currently pending before District Courts raise related issues and each have the potential to reach the Federal Circuit. In this post, we provide…
Last Friday, Oct. 30, Janssen filed a motion for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae in support of Amgen in Amgen v. Apotex. As we’ve covered in previous posts, Janssen is one of the plaintiffs litigating the question of what is required under the BPCIA’s 180-day notice of commercial marketing provision in Janssen…
As we’ve covered in previous posts (here and here), the parties in Janssen v. Celltrion have been supplementing their briefings on whether Celltrion’s notice of commercial marketing, given before FDA approval of its biosimilar application, was legally effective under the BPCIA as interpreted by the Federal Circuit in Amgen v. Sandoz. Janssen has…
The parties in Janssen v. Celltrion have filed a stipulation of voluntary dismissal narrowing the issues in the litigation. While it does not dispose of all patent infringement claims in suit, the stipulation narrows the case as follows: Defendants will not launch any biosimilar infliximab product in the United States until after September 15, 2015, the date…
In addition to the pending cross-motions for partial summary judgment on which we’ve previously reported, the parties in the Janssen v. Celltrion BPCIA litigation recently completed briefing on the issue of whether the district court should permit Janssen to use confidential information obtained through discovery as a basis for a…