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In In re Entresto (Sacubitril/Valsartan) Patent Litigation, Judge Richard G. Andrews of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware granted MSN Pharmaceuticals Inc. a victory on noninfringement of U.S. Patent No....more
Novartis markets and sells a combination therapy of valsartan and sacubitril under the brand name Entresto® for the treatment of various forms of heart failure. MSN submitted an Abbreviated New Drug Application seeking...more
Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - TEVA BRANDED PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS R&D, INC. v. AMNEAL PHARMACEUTICALS OF NEW YORK, LLC [OPINION] (2024-1936, 12/20/2024) (Prost, Taranto, Hughes) - Prost, J. The...more
In a Jan. 10 precedential ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the validity of the U.S. patent covering Novartis’s blockbuster drug Entresto was upheld, reversing an earlier decision by the...more
Case Name: Novartis Pharms. Corp. v. MSN Pharms. Inc., Civ. No. 20-MD-2930-RGA, 2024 WL 3756787 (D. Del. Aug. 12, 2024)....more
Case Name: Novartis Pharms. Corp. v. Hetero USA Inc., Civ. No. 20-md-2930-RGA, 2024 WL 3757086 (D. Del. Aug. 12, 2024)....more
Case Name: Novartis Pharms. Corp. v. Becerra, No. 24-CV-02234 (DLF), 2024 WL 3823270 (D.D.C. Aug. 13, 2024) (Friedrich, J.)....more
As the era of biologics and biosimilar litigations heats up in the United States, Europe’s Unified Patent Court (UPC) is also taking center stage with the first two biosimilar disputes filed in March and April....more
In an appeal that attracted a dozen amici, including the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, five states, and the District of Columbia, the Second Circuit gave the Walker Process antitrust doctrine a shot in...more
As part of the Hatch-Waxman Act, given the lack of information on the allegedly infringing product, courts have found that patentees can satisfy the pleading requirements of Twombly/Iqbal without having access to the accused...more
避而不谈可能支持否定性权利要求限定 - 在 Novartis Pharmaceuticals 诉 Accord Healthcare Inc. 一案（上诉案件编号：21- 1070）中，联邦巡回上诉法院认为，一项对药物“速效剂量”避而不谈的专利申请，为要求不存在此类剂量的否定 性权利要求限制提供了书面说明支持。 ...more
記述がないことがクレームの否定的限定のサポートと解釈できる場合がある Federal Circuit は、Novartis Pharmaceuticals v. Accord Healthcare Inc. (Appeal No. 21-1070) に おいて、薬剤の「初回負荷用量」についての記述がない特許出願は、そのような用量がないことを要 求するクレームの否定的限定に記述によるサポートを提供していることになると判示した。 ...more
January 2022 Federal Circuit Newsletter (Japanese) January 2022 Federal Circuit Newsletter (Chinese) Silence May Support Negative Claim Limitation In Novartis Pharmaceuticals v. Accord Healthcare Inc. Appeal No. 21-1070, the...more
On October 26, 2021, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) granted Regeneron’s petition to institute an inter partes review (IPR) of Novartis’s patent U.S. Pat. No. 9,220,631 (“the ’631 patent”), which covers a pre-filled...more
Case Name: Novartis Pharms. Corp. v. Accord Healthcare Inc., No. 18-1043-KAJ (D. Del. August 10, 2020) (Jordan, J.)... Drug Product and Patent(s)-in-Suit: Gilenya® (fingolimod); U.S. Patent No. 9,187,405 (“the ’405...more
Case Name: Piramal Healthcare US Ltd. v. Novartis Pharms. Corp., No. 19-12651 (SRC), 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 38849 (D.N.J. Mar. 5, 2020) (Chesler, J.)....more
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
CAR T-Cell therapy, a new biologic therapy, is taking off. As companies continue to develop this new and promising therapy, patent litigation inevitably follows. ...more
Case Name: Novartis Pharms. Corp. v. Accord Healthcare Inc., C.A. No. 18-1043-LPS, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 104969 (D. Del. June 24, 2019) (Stark, J.)....more
Case Name: Novartis Pharms. Corp. v. Accord Healthcare Inc., C.A. No. 18-1043-LPS, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 101106 (D. Del. June 17, 2019) (Stark, J.)....more
Case Name: Novartis Pharma Co. v. West-Ward Pharms. Int’l, No. 2018-1434, 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 14122 (Fed. Cir. May 13, 2019) (Circuit Judges Stoll, Plager, and Clevenger presiding; Opinion by Stoll, J.) (Appeal from D. Del.,...more
The Federal Circuit exhibited the current status of its obviousness jurisprudence in affirming the District Court's determination that the asserted claims of U.S. Patent No. 8,410,131 were obvious in a decision handed down...more
Case Name: Novartis AG v. Ezra Ventures LLC, Fed. Cir. No. 2017-2284, 2018 U.S App. LEXIS 34459 (Fed. Cir. Dec. 7, 2018) (Circuit Judges Moore, Chen, and Hughes presiding; Opinion by Chen, J.) (Appeal from D. Del., Stark,...more
Case Name: Novartis Pharms. Corp v. Breckenridge Pharm. Inc., No. 2017-2173, 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 34462 (Fed. Cir. Dec. 7, 2018) (Circuit Judges Prost, Wallach, and Chen; Opinion by Chen, J.) (Appeal from D. Del., Andrews,...more
In Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. v. Breckenridge Pharmaceutical Inc., Novartis scored another obviousness-type double patenting (OTDP) win when the Federal Circuit held that a post-URAA child patent could not be cited as an...more