AbbVie

The U.S. Supreme Court on June 21 declined to hear AbbVie Inc.’s challenge to a lower court’s decision that the company violated federal antitrust law by pursuing a “sham” patent complaint against rival Perrigo Co. over AbbVie’s blockbuster testosterone replacement drug AndroGel.

The U.S. Supreme Court on June 21 rejected a bid by an Amarin Corp. subsidiary to revive patents on the company’s heart drug Vascepa in a legal battle against generic drugmakers Hikma Pharmaceuticals Plc and Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd.

The U.S. Supreme Court on June 1 declined to hear Johnson & Johnson’s bid to overturn a $2.12 billion damages award to women who blamed their ovarian cancer on asbestos in the company’s baby powder and other talc products.

The U.S. Supreme Court on May 17 dashed Novartis AG’s hopes of launching a generic version of Amgen Inc.’s multibillion-dollar rheumatoid arthritis medicine Enbrel, declining to hear the company’s challenge to two patents on the drug.

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a bid by Johnson & Johnson to overturn a $70 million jury verdict against the pharmaceutical company for J&J’s failure to warn about risks associated with off-label uses of the antipsychotic drug Risperdal.

Merck

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Merck & Co. Inc.’s bid to revive a $2.54 billion jury verdict the company won against rival drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc. for infringing a patent in a dispute over a blockbuster hepatitis C treatment.

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a bid by President Donald Trump’s administration to revive pilot programs adopted by the states of Arkansas and New Hampshire that allow work requirements to be imposed on people who receive healthcare under the Medicaid program for the poor.

U.S. health authorities will hold an emergency meeting to recommend that a coronavirus vaccine awaiting approval be given first to healthcare professionals and people in long-term care facilities.

Join TLD Group Advisor and Senior Consultant Dr. Kent Bottles in a webinar on December 3rd that will discuss American Healthcare in 2021: What Should Providers, Patients, & Citizens Expect?

U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled they are unlikely to strike down the Obamacare healthcare law in a legal challenge brought by Texas and 17 other Republican-governed states and joined by President Donald Trump’s administration.