Despite a patent extension, Merck’s muscle relaxant reversal injection is now facing potential generic competition from Hikma Pharmaceuticals, which is seeking the FDA’s approval for a copycat version.
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In its final decision, the U.S. PTO invalidated all of the claims in Seagen’s patent 10,808,039, which covers the use of auristatin peptides connected to antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) via a specific linker technology.
Regulators on both sides of the Atlantic have stepped up their scrutiny into the pharmaceutical industry to ensure that smaller innovative companies can compete with bigger rivals and that prices for drugs and products remain affordable.
A U.S. federal court upheld a prior ruling in favor of Roche’s Genentech, finding that its blockbuster hemophilia treatment Hemlibra did not infringe on patent protections held by Takeda’s Baxalta.
The organization asked J&J to publicly commit that it will drop any secondary patents for its drug-resistant tuberculosis drug Sirturo (bedaquiline) in countries with a high disease burden.
Johnson & Johnson’s legal settlement with Amgen to delay a biosimilar version of its blockbuster psoriasis treatment Stelara until January 2025 could make the drug a larger contributor to J&J’s 2024 and 2025 sales than Wall Street is forecasting.
The justices turned away Israel-based Teva’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling reinstating the jury award for U.K.-based GSK. The case involves “skinny labels,” which allow generic drugmakers to avoid patent lawsuits if a generic drug’s label omits potentially infringing uses of a brand-name drug.
Roche’s Genentech Inc. sued Biogen MA Inc. on Tuesday in San Francisco federal court, claiming Biogen owes additional patent royalties from worldwide sales of its blockbuster multiple-sclerosis and Crohn’s disease drug Tysabri.
“It is not at all clear that Merck is doing anything other than extending its monopoly power over the drug,” Warren wrote to Kathi Vidal, director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) in the letter sent on Wednesday
Pfizer and BioNTech sued Moderna in London in September, seeking to revoke two of Moderna’s patents in relation to its messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines.
