Yesterday, Immunex, Amgen, and Hoffmann-LaRoche (collectively, “Plaintiffs”) filed a complaint in the District of New Jersey against Samsung Bioepis alleging patent infringement under…
Yesterday, Immunex, Amgen, and Hoffmann-LaRoche (collectively, “Plaintiffs”) filed a complaint in the District of New Jersey against Samsung Bioepis alleging patent infringement under…
April has seen a flurry of biosimilar-related appellate activity before the Federal Circuit. Below are some highlights. The parties in the Amgen v. Hospira BPCIA litigation concerning Hospira’s…
As we previously reported, on January 24, 2019, Coherus filed a complaint against Amgen in the District of Delaware alleging that Amgen’s adalimumab product for sale in Europe, Amgevita™,…
U.S. Patent No. 9,856,287, which is directed to a protein refolding method, is one of the patents-in-suit in the pending Amgen v. Adello (filgrastim) BPCIA litigation and the sole patent-in-suit…
On April 15, 2019, the parties filed their opening claim construction briefs (Amgen’s Brief; Adello’s Brief) in the Amgen v. Adello BPCIA litigation concerning Adello’s aBLA for a…
Magistrate Judge Lloret of the District of Delaware recently issued two discovery rulings in the ongoing AbbVie v. Boehringer Ingelheim (“BI”) litigation. Grant of BI’s Motion To Compel…
Last week, the district court in Amgen v. Apotex (No. 18-61828) (S.D. Fla.) denied Apotex’s motion to dismiss Amgen’s complaint in a follow-on suit concerning Apotex’s pegfilgrastim and…
On April 5, 2019, Genentech filed patent infringement and declaratory judgment complaint against Pfizer in the District of Delaware in response to Pfizer’s submission of an aBLA seeking U.S….
On March 7, 2019, Kashiv Biosciences filed two IPR petitions (IPR2019-00791 and IPR2019-00797) against Amgen process patents – U.S. Patent Nos. 8,940,878 and 9,643,997. The ‘878 and…
Earlier this month, a bipartisan group of six senators introduced the Biologic Patent Transparency Act (“BPTA”), which the senators say will “help increase patent transparency,…