IS THE A IN ANDA BEGINNING TO MEAN ANTITRUST?
On July 15, 2025, Judge Evelyn Padin of the District of New Jersey denied Novartis’s motion for preliminary injunction, which would have blocked MSN Laboratories Pvt. Ltd. from selling a generic version of Novartis’s Entresto...more
Case Name: Jazz Pharms., Inc. v. Avadel CNS Pharms., LLC, Nos. 2024-2274, 2024-2277, 2024-2278, 2025 WL 1298920 (Fed. Cir. May 6, 2025) (Circuit Judges Lourie, Reyna, and Taranto presiding; Opinion by Lourie, J.) (Appeal from...more
Priority Claims Cannot Be Incorporated by Reference - In Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. West-Ward Pharmaceuticals International Limited, Appeal Nos. 2016-2707 and 2016-2708, the Federal Circuit held that when a patent for a...more
On April 13, 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a decision in Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. West-Ward Pharmaceuticals Int’l Ltd upholding the validity of U.S. Patent 8,586,610 (“the ’610...more
Federal Circuit Summaries - Before Prost, Lourie and Hughes. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. Summary: When another patent for a drug issues after an ANDA is filed, there can...more