A new study funded by Sandoz related to the budget impact of expanding patient access to biosimilar pegfilgrastim (Ziextenzo) was presented during the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy’s AMCP eLearning Days virtual meeting in April. The study found that expanding access to Ziextenzo to patients with intermediate risk of developing febrile…
We have previously reported on the Amgen v. Sanofi Praulent® litigation, which has been ongoing since late 2014. After the parties stipulated to infringement, a jury in the District of Delaware found in favor of Amgen and the validity of its patents over its biologic drug Repatha® (evolucumab) in March…
On March 30, in the Genentech v. Amgen trastuzumab and bevacizumab biosimilar patent litigations, Delaware District Judge Connolly ordered the appointment of a special master to handle the parties’ requests to seal various court filings. Judge Connolly stated that “[r]ecent sealed and redacted filings in these related cases make clear that…
Mylan announced on its most recent quarterly earnings call that it expects to launch its rituximab and etanercept biosimilars in Europe later this year. In discussing Mylan’s biosimilars pipeline, Rajiv Malik, Mylan’s President, told market analysts, “we also have for Europe rituximab and Enbrel biosimilars, which will be most likely…
The Federal Circuit has declined to reconsider its December 2019 affirmance of the district court ruling in the Amgen v. Hospira (epoetin alfa) dispute. As we have previously reported, that ruling upheld a jury verdict finding (among other things) that Hospira’s manufacture of certain drug substance batches was not protected…
As we previously reported, on February 11, 2020, Amgen sued Pfizer and its affiliate Hospira, alleging that their proposed biosimilar of Amgen’s NEULASTA (pegfilgrastim) would infringe U.S. Patent No. 8,273,707 (“the ’707 patent”). The ’707 patent is directed at methods of protein purification. Last week, Pfizer filed a motion to…
We have previously reported on the BPCIA Genentech v. Amgen cases relating to trastuzumab and bevacizumab. This week, Judge Connolly construed the term “following fermentation” as it relates to U.S. Patent No. 8,574,869 (“the Kao patent”) to mean “after the earlier of harvesting or purification has begun.” By way of…
Following the oral argument three days ago, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit today affirmed the lower court’s denial of Genentech’s motion for a preliminary injunction to enjoin sales of Amgen’s KANJINTI (trastuzumab-anns) biosimilar product. As we previously reported, Amgen launched KANJINTI in the United States in…
We previously reported that Hospira filed a petition for rehearing en banc of the Federal Circuit’s affirmance of a $70 million damages award to Amgen in the parties’ BPCIA litigation regarding Hospira’s RETACRIT (epoetin alfa-epbx), a biosimilar of EPOGEN. Last week, Amgen filed its response. As background, in December 2019,…
As we previously reported, Amgen sued Pfizer and its affiliate Hospira in July 2018 based on Hospira’s submission of an aBLA for a biosimilar of NEULASTA (filgrastim). That same month, Pfizer obtained FDA-approval and, in October 2018, it launched its biosimilar in the United States as NIVESTYM (filgrastim-aafi). Since that…