On November 12, 2025, Regeneron filed a Motion to Strike Certain Affirmative Defenses and Dismiss Certain Counterclaims against Amgen in the aflibercept patent litigation in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia. The dispute centers on Amgen’s aflibercept biosimilar, PAVBLU®. As we have previously reported, in…
On September 30, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey entered a Consent Judgment and Injunction resolving the denosumab BPCIA litigation between Amgen, Inc. (“Amgen”) and Biocon Biologics, Inc., Biocon Biologics UK Limited, Biocon Biologics Limited, and Biosimilars Newco Limited (collectively, “Biocon”) after Amgen and Biocon executed a Confidential…
On September 5, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey entered a Consent Order and Judgment resolving the denosumab BPCIA litigation between Amgen, Inc. (“Amgen”) and Samsung Bioepis Co., Ltd. and Samsung Biologics Co., Ltd. (“Samsung”), one day after Amgen and Samsung executed a Confidential Settlement…
The Bayh-Dole Act provides that the federal government retains certain rights in inventions it funds. Many have sought to use those rights as a way to lower the cost of prescription drugs for consumers and for the federal government. With the increasing market share of more expensive biologic prescriptions, those…
On July 24, 2025, Acting Director of the USPTO, Coke Morgan Stewart, denied institution of inter partes review in IPR2025-00601 and IPR2025-00602, but referred the petition in IPR2025-00603 to the Board in Amgen Inc. v. Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. The Bristol-Myers Squibb (“BMS”) patents, challenged by Petitioner Amgen, relate to methods of…
On August 14, 2025, Genentech, Inc. and Hoffman-La Roche Inc. (together, “Genentech”) filed a BPCIA complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey against Shanghai Henlius Biotech, Inc. and Shanghai Henlius Biologics Co., Ltd. (together, “Henlius”) and Organon LLC and Organon & Co. (together, “Organon”) seeking approval…
In the last week, Amgen, Inc and Amgen Manufacturing Ltd, LLC (“Amgen”) filed three more BPCIA complaints against companies seeking approval for a denosumab biosimilar. On June 25, 2025, Amgen filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey against Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. (“Hikma”),…
On June 17, 2025, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Regeneron”) filed another complaint against Amgen Inc. (“Amgen”) under the BPCIA, alleging that Amgen’s aflibercept biosimilar, PAVBLU®, infringes U.S. Patent No. 12,331,099 (“the ’099 patent”). The ’099 patent issued on the same day, with claims generally directed to a stable liquid ophthalmic formulation…
On May 14, 2025, HyClone Laboratories, LLC (“HyClone”) filed a Motion to Quash in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, seeking to quash Amgen Inc.’s (“Amgen”) subpoena to HyClone issued in Amgen’s denosumab BPCIA case against Accord. Amgen’s subpoena to HyClone seeks information regarding the full formulations…
On April 22, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia entered a Stipulation and Order Vacating Permanent Injunction and Dismissing All Claims and Counterclaims with Prejudice in In re: Aflibercept Patent Litigation (MDL No.: 1:24-md-3103). The stipulation had been filed the day before by Plaintiff…