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Article III Pharmaceutical Industry

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Speculative Plans Are Insufficient to Establish Standing in PTAB Appeals

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INCYTE CORPORATION v. SUN PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES, INC. - Before Moore, Hughes, and Cunningham. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Speculative plans for potentially infringing activity are insufficient to...more

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Federal Circuit: Plans for Future Activity Created a Substantial Risk of Future Infringement

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Restem filed a petition for inter partes review of U.S. Patent No. 9,803,176, directed to stem cells obtained from umbilical cord tissue and isolated through a two-step process to create a specific cell marker expression...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases: Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Moderna, Inc.

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Moderna, Inc., Appeal No. 2023-2357 (Fed. Cir. June 4, 2025) In this week’s Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit affirmed a final judgment that Moderna’s mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine did...more

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Third Circuit Affirms Rejection of AstraZeneca’s Challenges to IRA Drug Price Negotiation Program

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On May 8, 2025, the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed the district court’s dismissal of AstraZeneca’s challenges to the Inflation Reduction Act’s Drug Price Negotiation Program and CMS’s Guidance implementing...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

No Article III Appellate Standing Under the Sun

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit dismissed Incyte’s appeal of a Patent Trial & Appeal Board decision, holding that a disappointed validity challenger lacked appellate standing to challenge the Board’s final...more

Alston & Bird

Patent Case Summaries | Week Ending May 9, 2025

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Ingenico Inc., et al. v. IOENGINE, LLC, No. 2023-1367 (Fed. Cir. (D. Del.) May 7, 2025). Opinion by Hughes, joined by Dyk and Prost. Ingenico filed a declaratory judgment action against IOENGINE relating to two patents owned...more

DLA Piper

Distribution of Biosimilar Pharmaceuticals Through Third Parties is Not Enough to Avoid Personal Jurisdiction

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In Regeneron Pharms., Inc. v. Mylan Pharms. Inc., the Federal Circuit recently held that biosimilar pharmaceutical companies that filed abbreviated Biologics License Applications (aBLAs) and planned to make a single sale to a...more

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Investigations Newsletter: Federal Government Urges Court of Appeals to Uphold Constitutionality of FCA Qui Tam Provisions

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Federal Government Urges Court of Appeals to Uphold Constitutionality of FCA Qui Tam Provisions - In a brief filed earlier this week, the US federal government has urged the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold the...more

Jenner & Block

Client Alert: Access to Mifepristone Still Standing for Now, but Questions Remain

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On Thursday morning, the Supreme Court issued its decision in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine. Justice Kavanaugh wrote for a unanimous Court dismissing the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine from the case for lack of...more

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Oral Arguments in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine: Mifepristone Case Likely to Turn on Article III Standing Requirements

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Nearly two years after the Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, additional challenges are being brought that may limit access to abortion in the U.S. Mifepristone was originally approved in 2000 by the U.S. Food and...more

Jenner & Block

Client Alert: The Supreme Court Signals That Access to Mifepristone Will Likely Remain Safe for Now

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On March 26, 2024, the Supreme Court heard arguments in the two consolidated cases concerning access to mifepristone pending before the Court, FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, Case No. 23-235 and Danco Laboratories,...more

Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

Puma and the Pitfalls of the “Narrow” Exclusive License

8 Puma Biotechnology is the latest victim of standing requirements in patent cases that continue to wreak havoc on plaintiffs’ ability to recover a full measure of damages. In Puma Biotechnology, Inc. v. AstraZeneca...more

Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

Bayer Covenants Not to Sue, Still Has Headache

Bayer's ‘053 patent on its drug Xarelto® expires in November 2024, and Bayer granted Mylan a covenant not to sue. Bayer has a second patent that is subject to a pediatric exclusivity that expires later - February 2025 - and...more

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District Court Enjoins California's Unprecedented "Reverse Payment" Law

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On December 8, 2021, a federal district court granted a preliminary injunction temporarily enjoining enforcement of the California state law Preserving Access to Affordable Drugs, which attempts to sanction reverse-payment...more

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Federal Circuit Review - November 2021

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Venue and Pleading Infringement in Hatch-Waxman Litigation Turn on Location and Identity of ANDA Filer - In Celgene Corp. v. Mylan Pharm. et al., Appeal No. 21-1154, the Federal Circuit held that in Hatch-Waxman...more

Quarles & Brady LLP

Federal Court Deals Blow to FDA’s Compounding MOU

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On September 21, 2021, D.C. District Court Judge Christopher Cooper gave an initial victory to the seven compounding pharmacies (“the pharmacies”) challenging Food and Drug Administration’s (“FDA”) final standard Memorandum...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Article III Standing Strikes Again

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Argentum Pharmaceuticals LLC v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp., Appeal No. 2018-2273 (Fed. Cir., April 23, 2020). Argentum and other petitioners filed IPRs against Novartis’ patent related to methods of treating...more

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U.S. District Court Overturns HHS Interpretation of Final Rule that Permitted Sponsors of Certain Drug and Device Trials to Avoid...

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If Sustained, Court Decision Will Require Disclosure of Results for a Decade of Certain Clinical Trials - Section 801 of the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007 (“Section 801”), which is codified at 42...more

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Arizona Tests The Nature Of The Supreme Court’s Original Jurisdiction

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Last week, the State of Arizona made an interesting litigation decision. As part of the ongoing litigation over the opioid crisis, Arizona filed a complaint against Purdue Pharmaceuticals and its owners, the Sackler...more

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Patent Case Summaries

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A weekly summary of the precedential patent-related opinions issued by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the opinions designated precedential or informative by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board....more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Mootness on Appeal from PTAB

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit dismissed an appeal of an inter partes review (IPR), finding that the challenger lacked appellate standing because it had terminated its attempts to develop the infringing...more

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Court Dismisses Biosimilar Petitioner's IPR Appeal For Lack of Standing

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In Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., the Federal Circuit dismissed Momenta’s appeal from an adverse IPR decision for lack of standing after Momenta suspended its potentially infringing biosimilar...more

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Notes from RICO Class Action Wars Against Pharmaceutical Companies

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Takeaway: There are two ways to beat a class action – defeat class certification or defeat the class claims on the merits. Individual RICO actions tend to be complex and expensive to defend, and they increase a defendant’s...more

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Federal Circuit Holds Petitioner Lacks Standing to Appeal Inter Partes Review Decision

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On February 7, 2019, in Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, the Federal Circuit dismissed an appeal brought by a petitioner in an inter partes review (IPR) for lack of standing and mootness because...more

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Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (Fed. Cir. 2019)

The Federal Circuit has on several occasions taken the opportunity to address (and in doing so, flesh out) the requirements for Article III standing to appeal an adverse determination in a post-grant review proceeding...more

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