In its June 2025 meeting, the European Medicines Agency’s (“EMA”) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (“CHMP”) adopted positive opinions for six biosimilar medicines. ...more
Last week, Biocon Biologics Ltd (“BBL”) announced that the EMA’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (“CHMP”) had issued positive opinions for Biocon’s two denosumab biosimilar candidates....more
On April 2, 2025, Accord received a positive opinion from the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use for two denosumab biosimilars: OSVYRTI and JUBEREQ. OSVYRTI is indicated for the...more
As more biosimilars continue to be approved across the world, it is helpful to compare the applicable regimes across major jurisdictions. We have collaborated with Brian Coggio of Fish & Richardson, and Mary Foord-Weston and...more
Legal, Regulatory and Commercial Perspectives on the International Biosimilars Marketplace - The Global Biosimilars market is expected to grow robustly. Market watchers anticipate that Europe in particular will experience...more
During the period leading up to the holidays, a number of biosimilar developers announced updates regarding their biosimilar pipelines. On December 5, Pfizer notified the European Medicine Agency’s Committee for Medicinal...more
Today, AbbVie and Pfizer announced that they reached a global resolution of all intellectual property-related litigation concerning Pfizer’s proposed biosimilar adalimumab. According to the press releases, AbbVie has granted...more
Europe has led the way globally with respect to biosimilar medicines since 2005. In that year, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) issued regulatory guidelines for the development and assessment of biosimilars....more
Biosimilars Around the World - Last month’s Supreme Court ruling in Sandoz v. Amgen brought greater certainty to both biosimilar applicants and originators in the United States. The July 2017 issue of Sterne Kessler’s...more
The Board of Appeal of the Italian Patent Office (Commissione dei Ricorsi), by decision published on June 26, 2017, acknowledged the right of the patent holder to ask the Italian Patent Office for the limitation of the...more