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Venable LLP

Spotlight On: Humira® (adalimumab) / Amjevita™ (adalimumab-atto) / Cyltezo® (adalimumab-adbm) / Hyrimoz™ (adalimumab-adaz) /...

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Adalimumab 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

Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

Crossing the Blurred Line Between Brands and Generics

Clients often ask if a law firm can represent both brand and generic drug manufacturers. It’s a reasonable question, particularly when the popular perception is that potential conflicts pigeonhole law firms, forcing them to...more

King & Spalding

GSK v. Teva and Induced Infringement by AB-Rated Generics: Where Are We Now?

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The Federal Circuit’s October 2020 split decision in GSK v. Teva made waves throughout the pharmaceutical industry and among Hatch-Waxman litigators.  In the broadest reading, some see the majority opinion as rendering any...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Clear Disavowal in Specification Can’t Be Remedied by Non-Material Change in Claims

Addressing an appeal from four related actions concerning Orange Book patents covering Suboxone® sublingual film, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s judgments that certain generic...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Just Because It’s Written Doesn’t Mean It’s Descriptive

Addressing the validity of patents involved in a Hatch-Waxman litigation, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that claims were invalid for lack of an adequate written description because the specification...more

Holland & Knight LLP

New Reverse-Payment Decision Sheds Further Light on Plaintiffs’ Causation Burden

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As post-Actavis antitrust litigation over so-called “reverse payment” patent settlements proceeds, courts continue to provide further illumination about what evidence a private plaintiff would need to offer to survive summary...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Reverse-Payment Plaintiffs Mine Patent Litigation Record to Survive Summary Judgment

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We pointed out in a recent article that, based on recent decisions by the Courts of Appeals for the First and Third Circuits, private antitrust plaintiffs seeking damages from so-called “reverse-payment” settlement agreements...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

En Banc: Federal Circuit Provides Guidance on Application of On-Sale Bar to Contract Manufacturers

Pharmaceutical and biotech companies breathed a sigh of relief Monday when the Federal Circuit unanimously ruled in a precedential opinion that the mere sale of manufacturing services to create embodiments of a patented...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Federal Circuit Finds That Use of a Contract Manufacturer Does Not Trigger the On-Sale Bar Provision

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The court’s decision provides insight into which activities trigger the on-sale bar provision. On July 11, in The Medicines Co. v. Hospira, Inc., No. 14-1469 (Fed. Cir. July 11, 2016), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Full Federal Circuit Denies En Banc Review of Jurisdictional Decision with Important Implications for BPCIA Litigation

On June 20, 2016, the full Federal Circuit denied Mylan’s petitions for rehearing en banc in Acorda Therapeutics Inc. v. Mylan Pharms. Inc., 817 F.3d 755 (Fed. Cir. 2016), leaving intact the panel’s decision affirming two...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Contract Manufacturing Makes Angiomax Patents Invalid Under On Sale Bar

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In The Medicines Company v. Hospira, Inc., the Federal Circuit held that a transaction with a contract manufacturer gave rise to an on sale bar that invalidated The Medicines Company’s Angiomax® patents. Are the facts of this...more

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