In February of this year, Amgen filed three petitions for inter partes review (IPR) of Alexion Pharmaceuticals’ U.S. Patent Nos. 9,725,504 (IPR2019-00739), 9,718,880 (IPR2019-00740), and 9,732,149…
In February of this year, Amgen filed three petitions for inter partes review (IPR) of Alexion Pharmaceuticals’ U.S. Patent Nos. 9,725,504 (IPR2019-00739), 9,718,880 (IPR2019-00740), and 9,732,149…
Goodwin Releases 2025-2026 Update to Guide to Biosimilars Litigation and Regulation in the U.S. First launched in 2019, the Guide is the industry’s first and leading compendium of the laws…
As we previously reported, the parties in the follow-on Amgen v. Apotex BPCIA litigation concerning Apotex’s proposed biosimilars of NEUPOGEN (filgrastim) and NEULASTA (pegfilgrastim) informed the…
This past May, in the Amgen v. Sandoz BPCIA litigation concerning Sandoz’s ZARXIO (filgrastim-sndz) biosimilar and proposed pegfilgrastim biosimilar, a Federal Circuit panel affirmed the district…
As we previously reported, AbbVie had appealed the PTAB’s final written decisions that the challenged claims of U.S. Patent Nos. 8,889,135, 9,017,680, and 9,073,987, directed to methods of using…
On August 22, Amgen and Allergan announced positive top-line results from a clinical study (JASMINE) comparing the efficacy and safety of the biosimilar candidate ABP 798 (rituximab) to the reference…
As we previously reported, in the Amgen v. Mylan litigation concerning Mylan’s FULPHILA (pegfilgrastim-jmdb), a biosimilar of NEULASTA, Amgen and Mylan filed a joint status report in which the…
United Healthcare and OneOncology have added Amgen’s MVASI (bevacizumab-awwb) and KANJINTI (trastuzumab-anns), biosimilars to AVASTIN and HERCEPTIN respectively, as preferred products, according to…
Last week, Big Molecule Watch sat down with Professor Arti Rai to discuss an article she recently co-authored, “How logically impossible patents block biosimilars.” The article, published…
As we previously reported, after Amgen obtained FDA-approval for MVASI (bevacizumab-awws), a biosimilar of Genentech’s AVASTIN, Amgen submitted—and the FDA approved—a number of supplements that…