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FTC Holds Its First Listening Session on Practices and Regulations Impacting Pharmaceutical Generic or Biosimilar Competition

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On June 30, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) held the first of three listening sessions focused on ways to lower Americans’ drug prices through competition. The panels are being held as...more

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BiologicsHQ Monthly Injection - March 2025

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On March 17, 2025, Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA), John Cornyn (R-TX), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Richard Durbin (D-IL) re-introduced the “Affordable Prescriptions for Patients Act” (“APPA”), which previously passed the...more

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Generic Launches

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Abbreviated New Drug Applications and 505(b)(2) Applications - This chart tracks the date, drug, reference-listed company, applicant, and indications of publicly available drug launches resulting from Abbreviated New Drug...more

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Senate Advances IP and Drug Pricing Legislation Amid Innovation Concerns

A Senate panel has advanced three sets of bipartisan bills purportedly aimed at reforming the intellectual property (IP) landscape and lowering the cost of prescription drugs. Together, these bills seek to address issues with...more

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New Rx for High Drug Prices? Senate Judiciary Committee Advances Six Bills With Heavy Dose of Options

The US Senate Judiciary Committee advanced to the full Senate six bills intended to reduce pharmaceutical prices and enhance market competitiveness. The package collectively targets several aspects of the pharmaceutical...more

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Prolia® / Xgeva® Biosimilar Updates: Alvotech / Dr. Reddy’s AVT03 aBLA Acceptance, Fresenius Kabi’s Conexxence™ / Bomyntra™...

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On March 18, 2025, Alvotech and Dr. Reddy’s announced the FDA acceptance of an aBLA for AVT03 (denosumab), a proposed biosimilar of Amgen’s Prolia® / Xgeva® (denosumab).  Under their agreement, Alvotech is responsible for the...more

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[Event] 21st Annual Conference on Paragraph IV Disputes - April 29th - 30th, New York, NY

Attend ACI's 21st Annual Conference on Paragraph IV Disputes and join leaders from brand and generic pharmaceutical companies, renowned outside counsel, esteemed members of the judiciary, government, and academia to: -...more

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Venable’s BiologicsHQ Monthly Injection - December 2024

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Welcome to Venable’s BiologicsHQ Monthly Injection - December 2024....more

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Senate Seeks to Reduce Biosimilar Prices by “Pruning” “Patent Thickets”

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On July 10, the Senate unanimously passed the Affordable Prescriptions for Patients Act of 2023 (S.150), which seeks to increase competition and lower drug prices by imposing limits on patent litigation related to biological...more

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Three Drug Pricing Litigation Issues to Watch in the Second Half of 2024

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It has been a busy year for issues related to drug pricing, and with the election around the corner, litigation issues that have been developing over the last few years are likely to be a key focus for the second half of...more

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The FTC Challenges Companies’ Allegedly Improper Orange Book Patent Listings

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has called attention in the past year to its perception of the influence that branded pharmaceutical companies have over the price of beneficial drugs. Most recently, the agency has asserted...more

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Hatch-Waxman Overview

The Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act of 1984, commonly known as the Hatch-Waxman Act, forms the current framework for the United States’ regulation of drug approvals. The law amended the Food, Drug, and...more

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USPTO Unveils Examiner Guidance on Searching Drug-related Applications

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

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The Interplay: Key Decisions at the Intersection of Antitrust & Life Sciences - April 2024

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This week, the FTC continued its intense regulatory focus on pharmaceutical patents listed in the FDA’s Orange Book. As reported in earlier editions of The Interplay, the FTC issued a policy statement in September 2023,...more

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[Event] 15th Summit on Biosimilars & Innovator Biologics - June 20th - 21st, New York, NY

Hosted by American Conference Institute, the Summit on Biosimilars & Innovator Biologics returns to New York City, on June 20 - 21, 2024. Now in its 15th year, the 2024 conference will dive deep into the latest legal,...more

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[Event] 20th Paragraph IV Disputes - April 25th - 26th, New York, NY

Hosted by American Conference Institute, the 20th Annual Paragraph IV Disputes & the 40th Anniversary of the Hatch-Waxman Act returns for another exciting year with curated programming that will take a retrospective look at...more

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The March on Pharmaceutical Patents?

December 7, 2023, President Biden announced new actions to promote competition in health care and to lower prescription drug costs. Of particular note is a newly unveiled framework for deciding whether the Government may...more

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Senate Judiciary Committee Pushes Pharma Patents and Pricing Bills Forward

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It is hard to predict whether a given bill will gain traction, but when the Senate Judiciary Committee reports out five bipartisan bills targeting pharmaceutical patents and pricing, it seems likely they are determined to get...more

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Year in Review: Top Biosimilars-Related Regulatory Developments of 2022

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As 2022 comes to a close, we review Big Molecule Watch’s top five biosimilar regulatory developments of the year...more

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USPTO Publishes Notice Calling Out Pharmaceutical Industry

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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

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Tillis Urges FDA, USPTO to Investigate Potential False Narrative by Drug Critics

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On January 31, 2022, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), the Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, sent a letter to Janet Woodcock, Acting Commissioner of the FDA, and Drew...more

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Biosimilars 2021 Year in Review

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2021 saw several important milestones in the biosimilars space, including the much anticipated first interchangeable designations by FDA and the approval of the first ophthalmology biosimilar. The biosimilar market also...more

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Year in Review: Top U.S. Biosimilars-Related Regulatory Developments of 2021

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As 2021 comes to a close, Big Molecule Watch reviews the top five biosimilar regulatory developments of the year... President Biden Signs Orange Book Transparency Act - In January, we reported that President Biden...more

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Calls for USPTO to Adopt Policies to Modulate Drug Pricing

In the wake of the nomination of Kathi Vidal as Director of the USPTO, there will be significant attention paid to the agency’s responses to calls from both the executive and legislative branches to remake the agency’s...more

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FDA’s Woodcock Reviews Patents Practices as a Way to Effect Drug Pricing

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On September 10, 2021, Janet Woodcock, the acting FDA Commissioner of Food and Drugs at the FDA, sent a letter to Andrew Hirshfield, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States...more

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