IS THE A IN ANDA BEGINNING TO MEAN ANTITRUST?
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