The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently instituted two of Mylan’s petitions seeking Inter Partes Review of Regeneron’s U.S. Patent No. 9,669,069 B2 (the “’069 Patent,” subject of IPR2021-00880) and U.S. 9,254,338 B2 (the “’338 Patent,” subject of IPR2021-00881), finding that Mylan (now part of Viatris) established a reasonable likelihood in prevailing in showing
In Valeant Pharmaceuticals North America LLC v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc., No. 2019-2402 (Fed. Cir. Nov. 5, 2020), the Federal Circuit clarified the venue analysis of 28 U.S.C. § 1400(b), which controls venue for patent infringement cases. Section 1400(b) provides that an action for patent infringement may be brought in the judicial district where the
Pharmaceutical companies Biocon Biologics and Mylan announced at the end of last month the U.S. launch of their long-acting insulin glargine product Semglee. Semglee was approved in June as an equivalent to Sanofi’s reference product insulin glargine, Lantus.
The companies are launching Semglee at a “65% discounted list price,” calling it the lowest wholesale acquisition
As previously reported, the FDA had yet to approve any biosimilars in 2020 as of June 9, despite a growing pipeline. Since then, the FDA has approved two biosimilar products.
On June 11, Pfizer Inc. announced the FDA’s approval of Nyvepria™ (pegfilgrastim-apgf), a biosimilar of Amgen’s Neulasta™. Nyvepria is indicated “to decrease the incidence of
We previously wrote about Genentech’s U.S. Patent No. 6,407,213 (“the ’213 patent”) to Carter, first in October 2017, and more recently in March 2018. At the time of our last update, the ’213 patent had been at issue in six district court litigations, and had been the subject of ten filed IPR petitions,
Earlier this month, the U.S. FDA announced approval of Mylan’s Fulphila biosimilar to Neulasta® (pegfilgrastim). Neulasta® was developed by Amgen and first approved in the U.S. and Europe in 2002. Following the approval announced on June 4, 2018, Fulphila, which was co-developed with Biocon, becomes the first biosimilar to pegfilgrastim approved in the U.S.
The
Fujifilm Kyowa Kirin Biologics Co., Ltd. (“Fujifilm”) recently announced that it will partner with Mylan N.V. (“Mylan”) to commercialize a biosimilar to adalimumab developed by Fujifilm. Under the terms of the agreement, Fujifilm grants Mylan an exclusive license to commercialize the biosimilar in Europe, and will receive an up-front fee in return. In addition, Fujifilm
Last week, Mylan N.V. and Biocon Ltd. announced that their jointly-developed insulin glargine biosimilar, Semglee™, received marketing approval from both the European Commission (which applies to all 28 European Union member states) and the European Economic Area member states of Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein.[1] Additionally, the Therapeutic Goods Administration approved the biosimilar for use
In October, we reported on a growing number of IPR challenges to Genentech’s U.S. Patent No. 6,407,213 (“the ʼ213 patent”) to Carter. The ’213 patent, “Method for making humanized antibodies,” which Genentech has stated in SEC filings covers technology used in developing the breast cancer drug Herceptin® (trastuzumab), has since been asserted or is otherwise
On January 3, 2018, Momenta and Mylan announced their development plan for a proposed biosimilar to Regeneron’s Eylea® whose active ingredient is aflibercept, a recombinant fusion protein. Eylea® was first approved as an intravitreal injection indicted for the treatment of patients with neovascular (wet) age-related macular degeneration. Eylea® is now also indicated for macular edema