AbbVie recently announced positive results for upadacitinib, a small molecule Janus Kinase (JAK) inhibitor, in a phase 3 clinical trial of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). According to AbbVie, upadacitinib met all primary and secondary endpoints in the study, including superiority versus adalimumab, the anti-TNFα antibody that Abbvie markets as…
We previously posted that in August 2017, Samsung Bioepis’ adalimumab biosimilar, SB5 (also known as Imraldi®), was granted marketing authorization by the European Commission. In September, it also won approval from the South Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety. SB5 is a biosimilar for Humira®, which is approved for…
Coherus Biosciences has filed two petitions for inter partes review of Abbvie’s U.S. Patent 9,085,619. (IPR2017-01008 and IPR2017-01009). Coherus recently filed four other petitions for inter partes review of the ‘619 patent, as we’ve reported. Those cases are pending an institution decision. According to the petitions, the ‘619 patent is drawn…