Tagged as: Genentech

FDA Accepts Xbrane’s sBLA for LUCENTIS® (Ranibizumab) Biosimilar Candidate

On June 21, 2023, Xbrane announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for filing Xbrane’s supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) for a LUCENTIS® (ranibizumab) biosimilar candidate. Xbrane stated that “[t]he biosimilar candidate is a VEGF-a inhibitor, intended for the treatment of serious eye diseases such as…

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Purple Book Updates

FDA’s Purple Book provides a searchable database of licensed biological products and includes the patent information provided to biosimilar applicants during the BPCIA patent dance.  Pursuant to a law enacted in late 2020, a reference product sponsor must provide patent information to FDA for listing in the Purple Book once…

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Genentech Files Lawsuits Against Biogen and Millennium for Past Royalties on the Cabilly Patents

This week, Genentech filed separate lawsuits against Biogen and Millennium, alleging breach of a license agreement to the Cabilly patents (U.S. Patent No. 6,331,415 and 7,923,221).  The patents are generally directed to processes for producing an antibody or an antibody fragment by transforming a host cell with a first and…

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Genentech BPCIA Trastuzumab Case Against Tanvex Dismissed After Settlement

As previously reported, Genentech and Tanvex reached an agreement in January 2022 to settle BPCIA litigation relating to Tanvex’s biosimilar of HERCEPTIN (trastuzumab).  On February 9, the court entered an order dismissing all claims in the case.  Tanvez’s trastuzumab biosimilar has not yet been approved by FDA. Genentech previously settled…

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Genentech and Tanvex Reach Settlement in Principle in Trastuzumab BPCIA Litigation

On January 6, 2023, Genentech and Tanvex reached a settlement in principle to resolve all claims with respect to Genentech’s BCPIA complaint.  As we previously reported, Genentech filed a complaint against Tanvex in June 2022, alleging infringement of three patents under the BPCIA based on Tanvex’s submission of an aBLA…

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PTAB Grants Petitioner Celltrion’s Motion To Submit Supplemental Information in Tocilizumab IPR

The U.S. Patent Trials & Appeals Board (Board) recently issued an Order granting Celltrion’s motion to submit supplemental information in its IPR (2022-00578) against U.S. Pat. No. 8,580,264, owned by Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisa, Genentech, Inc, and Hoffmann La Roche, Inc. As we previously reported, this is one of two…

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Genentech Voluntarily Recalls SUSVIMO (ranibizumab)

This month, Genentech announced a voluntary recall of the ranibizumab injection (SUSVIMO) ocular implant and associated insertion tool.  SUSVIMO, which provides continuous administration of the anti-VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor A) monoclonal antibody fragment ranibizumab, is approved by the FDA for treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration.  According to Genentech,…

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Genentech and Samsung Bioepis Settle Bevacizumab Biosimilar Patent Dispute

As we previously reported, on June 28, 2020, Genentech, Inc. (“Genentech”) filed a complaint against Samsung Bioepis Co., Ltd. (“Samsung”) in the District of Delaware, alleging infringement of fourteen patents under the BPCIA based on Samsung’s submission of an aBLA for SB8, a proposed biosimilar of AVASTIN (bevacizumab). On September 7, 2022, Genentech and Samsung filed…

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Biocon and Alvotech Release Statements on FDA Inspections

On August 31, 2022, Biocon Biologics released a statement regarding three recent on-site FDA inspections of seven manufacturing facilities spanning two sites in Bengaluru, India and one site in Johor, Malaysia.  The inspections took place between August 11 and August 30, 2022.  The inspections were triggered by three preapproval inspections…

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