Under Section 262(l)(8)(A) of the BPCIA, a biosimilar maker must provide notice to the reference product sponsor 180 days before the date of first commercial marketing of the biosimilar. ...more
Amgen and Hospira have fired off dueling letters to the court in their litigation over Amgen’s Epogen biosimilar, debating whether the U.S. biosimilar statute, the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2009...more
7/13/2016
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Yesterday, the Federal Circuit decided Amgen v. Apotex, No. 2016-1308 (Fed. Cir. July 5, 2016), its second decision interpreting the U.S. biosimilar statute, the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation of Act of 2009...more
7/6/2016
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Sandoz v Amgen
In August 2015, FDA released a long-awaited draft guidance for the nonproprietary names of biologics and biosimilars. The draft guidance recommends that nonproprietary names for biologic products should consist of the “core”...more
Sandoz has filed a petition for a writ of certiorari in Amgen v. Sandoz, seeking Supreme Court review of the Federal Circuit’s ruling that it could not market Zarxio, its biosimilar version of Amgen’s cancer medicine...more
The U.S. biosimilars statute, the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (“BPCIA”), was enacted in 2010 as part of the Affordable Care Act. Nearly six years later, the number of reported decisions addressing the...more
This fall marks the tenth anniversary of the effective date of the European Medicines Agency’s Guideline on Similar Biological Medicinal Products. As this blog noted previously, the EU’s biosimilar pathway both preceded the...more
On June 3, the parties in Amgen v. Sandoz presented oral arguments to the Federal Circuit as part of their dispute over the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (BPCIA). The appeal is focused on two questions:...more
6/13/2015
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Yesterday the Federal Circuit granted Amgen’s motion for an injunction pending appeal in Amgen v. Sandoz, the first appeal to squarely address the patent litigation provisions of the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation...more