The Biden Administration recently released a 2025 Budget Proposal which includes permitting biosimilar substitution without the Food and Drug Administration’s (“FDA”) separate determination of interchangeability. Specifically, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS)’s 2025 proposed budget includes a budget-neutral provision for allowing biosimilar substitution without a separate determination…
As regular Big Molecule Watch readers know, the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (“BPCIA”) was signed into law as part of the Affordable Care Act on March 23, 2010, creating an abbreviated licensure pathway for “biosimilar” and “interchangeable” biological products. The BPCIA also introduced a new scheme to resolve…
On November 14, 2023, in the third webinar in Goodwin’s 2023 Biosimilars Webinar Series, Goodwin IP Litigation partner and managing editor of the Goodwin PTAB Trial Tracker newsletter, Linnea Cipriano, Goodwin IP Litigation associate and Big Molecule Watch editor, James Breen and Goodwin IP Litigation associate, Christine Potkay, will provide…
The world of biosimilar litigation is back in full swing with several BPCIA lawsuits currently pending. On October 12, 2023, in the second webinar in Goodwin’s 2023 Biosimilars Webinar Series, Goodwin IP Litigation partner and BMW Founding Editor, Elaine Blais, Goodwin IP Litigation partner and BMW Editor-in-Chief, Natasha Daughtrey and…
Today, the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet announced that the Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman “for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA [messenger RNA] vaccines against COVID-19.” Dr. Karikó is a Professor at Szeged University and…
Two weeks ago, HHS announced the first 10 drugs that will be subject to the new Drug Price Negotiation Program under the Inflation Reduction Act (“IRA”). Six of the manufacturers whose drugs are on the list and several other interested groups have filed lawsuits challenging the Program. In one of…
Developing and successfully commercializing a biosimilar is a complex and expensive process. On September 13, 2023, in the first webinar in Goodwin’s 2023 Biosimilars Webinar Series, Goodwin IP Litigation partners and Big Molecule Watch editors, Naomi Birbach, Josh Weinger and Keith Zullow and, Goodwin IP Litigation associate and Big Molecule…
In continuation of Goodwin’s previous webinar series concerning biosimilars, Big Molecule Watch is launching the 2023-2024 webinar series, which will dive deep into some of the key topics pertaining to this burgeoning industry and corresponding area of law. Stay tuned for more details, including registration information for upcoming webinars. So…
On June 30, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its updated final program guidance covering the Inflation Reduction Act’s Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program for the first round of negotiations, which will occur during 2023 and 2024 and result in prices that will be effective beginning…
Many pre-commercialization gene or cell therapy companies are aware of the patents that could threaten their product after launch, but assume that they are protected from patent infringement suits before they obtain FDA approval and sell their products under the so-called “safe harbor.” In this webinar on August 2, 2023,…