Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 167: Dr. Ehsan Samei & Dr. Susan Halabi, Triangle CERSI
Podcast: Non-binding Guidance: FDA Regulatory and Patent Implications of the Transition Provision of the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act
Drug Pricing Initiatives During the Trump Presidency
A changing competitive landscape: the role of the ITC in the biosimilars space
Polsinelli Podcasts - FDA Denies Amgen Citizen Petition in Biosimilar Dispute
Etanercept Challenged Claim Types in IPR and Litigation: Claims include those challenged in litigations and IPRs. Claims are counted in each litigation and IPR, so claims from the same patent challenged in multiple...more
Tocilizumab Challenged Claim Types in IPRs: Claims are counted in each IPR, so claims from the same patent challenged in multiple IPRs are counted more than once. Within each IPR, claims are counted only once, whether they...more
On February 28, 2025, Amgen filed three IPRs against Bristol-Myers Squibb’s patents covering methods of treatment using a combination of Opdivo® (nivolumab), an anti-PD-1 antibody, and Yervoy® (ipilimumab), an anti-CTLA-4...more
On January 15, 2025, Celltrion filed IPR2025-00456 against Regeneron’s U.S. Patent No. 11,084,865 (“the ’865 patent”), challenging claims 1-17, 19-42, 44-50 as anticipated and claims 1-50 as obvious....more
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On June 14, 2024, the PTAB issued a Final Written Decision (FWD) in Samsung Bioepis’s IPR2023-00442 (“the -00442 IPR) determining that the challenged claims of Regeneron’s U.S. Patent No. 10,130,681 (the ’681 patent) that...more
Last November, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued Guidance to the Examiner Corps that was disclosed to the public at the March 19, 2024 Biotechnology, Chemical, and Pharmaceutical Partnership Meeting, on resources to...more
In a recent Federal Register notice, the PTO announced a proposed rule requiring that any settlement agreement resolving a PTAB proceeding, even if such agreement occurs prior to a decision to institute an inter partes review...more
On March 13, 2024, Regeneron appealed the PTAB Board’s (“the Board”) recent Final Written Decisions (“FWDs”) that found claims of two Regeneron patents related to EYLEA® (aflibercept) unpatentable....more
On March 4, 2024, the PTAB granted Biocon and Janssen’s joint motion to terminate IPR2023-01444 due to a settlement reached prior to an institution decision. The parties announced in a press release that their settlement and...more
On February 12, 2024, Chugai, Genentech, and Hoffmann-La Roche (Roche) filed a motion to voluntarily dismiss CAFC Appeals 24-1111 and 24-1115, appealing the Final Written Decisions (FWDs) in IPR2022-00578 and IPR2022-00579,...more
The new year has brought a wave of activity for EYLEA® (aflibercept) biosimilars. Following up on our previous report (EYLEA® (aflibercept) and Soliris® (eculizumab) IPR and BPCIA Litigation Updates, December 31, 2023), in...more
The U.S. Supreme Court’s May 2023 decision in Amgen, Inc. v. Sanofi (Amgen) sent shock waves through the patent world, particularly in the chemical and biotech segments, due to its invalidation of Amgen patents based on a...more
In the last month, there has been a flurry of activity at the PTAB related to challenges from biosimilar manufacturers related to ustekinumab, aflibercept, and eculizumab patents....more
On August 29, 2023, the PTAB issued final written decisions in IPR2022-00578 and IPR2022-00579, filed by Celltrion on two patents related to tocilizumab — U.S. Patent Nos. 8,580,264 and 10,874,677, owned by Chugai Seiyaku...more
Biologics have become the fastest-growing class of therapeutic compounds. They have provided innovative treatment alternatives for people who suffer from some of the most serious medical conditions known to man. The...more
2022 heralded the next chapter for biosimilars in the United States, including U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of biosimilars in new therapeutic areas, additional interchangeable designations, and litigation...more
As we ring in the new year, we look back at the top legal developments of 2022 that could influence the market for biologics and biosimilars. There were many interesting decisions and other developments in district court, at...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...more
President Biden’s Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy, 86 FR 36987 (2021), expressed concerns about the patent system being misused to unnecessarily inhibit or delay entry of generic drugs or...more
This June, join the “who’s who” of the biosimilars and innovator biologics industries as they gather in Boston for ACI’s 13th Annual Summit on Biosimilars & Innovator Biologics....more