It is hard to believe that we are already in February and it has been a month since the 42nd Annual JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco wrapped. It was a packed four days in which the major players in the life...more
Welcome to the latest issue of Blockbuster Biologics Review, which covers the status and developments of post-grant challenges and patent litigations implicating blockbuster biologics and legislative proposals related to...more
The US Supreme Court recently debated the future of the legal precedent known as Chevron deference in two separate cases arising out of the National Marine Fisheries Service’s statutory interpretation of the Magnuson-Stevens...more
The ball has dropped on the healthcare and life sciences industry’s unique New Year tradition, the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, so all eyes turn to 2024. To help define a path forward, Morgan Lewis FDA and healthcare...more
On the last day of the 2024 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, we’re taking a look back at the last year to revisit the developments that had a considerable impact on the life sciences industry, including the transactional...more
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was busy in 2023 with significant, and even bullish, developments occurring across several areas, from drug and biologic development and manufacturing to labeling, advertising, and...more
With the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference taking place in San Francisco this week, what better time for an update on the Orange Book? The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), supported by the US Food and Drug Administration...more
As the close of 2023 approaches, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued draft guidance detailing its new Advanced Manufacturing Technologies Designation Program, intended to facilitate the development and...more
FDA issued the final rule Direct-to-Consumer Prescription Drug Advertisements: Presentation of the Major Statement in a Clear, Conspicuous, and Neutral Manner in Advertisements in Television and Radio Format (Final Rule) on...more
Substantial evidence, the evidentiary standard for effectiveness established in 1962 by the US Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act), is the measure against which all drugs and biologics are approved in the United...more
Welcome to our quarterly update relating to biologics and biosimilars, including post-grant and patent litigation challenges to blockbuster biologics. Since the enactment of the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act...more
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a much-awaited draft guidance on October 24, revising its approach to the dissemination of scientific information on unapproved uses of approved/cleared (collectively referred...more
FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), the locus of regulating cell and gene therapies among other expanding areas of biotech, is poised for change on a number of important fronts—leadership, significant...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), supported by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), issued a policy statement on September 14 indicating that the FTC intends to “scrutinize improper Orange Book listings” to identify...more
In a continuing effort to improve the quality system effectiveness of human drug manufacturing sites, FDA revised MAPP 5014.1, Understanding CDER’s Risk-Based Site Selection Model (Site Selection MAPP or the Policy)....more
As drug shortages are once again front-page crises news, demanding drastic action by FDA—currently with a particular focus on sterile, injectable platinum-based chemotherapy drugs—a refresher on the scope of FDA’s tools to...more