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Nature of the Case and Issue(s) Presented: Ozobax is indicated for treatment of spasticity resulting from multiple sclerosis, and particularly flexor spasms and concomitant pain, clonus, and muscular rigidity. While the use...more
On March 28, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an opinion affirming the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey decision that Mylan Laboratories Ltd. (“Mylan”) induced...more
Invega Trinza® (paliperidone palmitate) - Case Name: Janssen Pharms., Inc. v. Mylan Labs. Ltd., No. 2023-2042, 2025 WL 946390 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 28, 2025) (Circuit Judges Dyk, Prost, and District Judge Goldberg presiding;...more
Case Name: Salix Pharms., Ltd. v. Norwich Pharms., Inc., C.A. No. 20-cv-430-RGA, 2022 WL 3225381 (D. Del. Aug. 10, 2022) (Andrews, J.) Drug Product and Patent(s)-in-Suit: Xifaxan® (rifaximin); U.S. Patents Nos. 7,612,199...more
Earlier this month, in GlaxoSmithKline LLC v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) affirmed (2-1) upon rehearing its October 2020 decision that a labeling...more
On August 5, 2021, the Federal Circuit withdrew its October 2020 opinion in GSK v. Teva, summarized in this post on induced infringement of method-of-treatment claims, and issued an opinion that reiterated the prior holding...more
Statutory Basis For Label Carve-Outs - Section viii of the Hatch-Waxman Act permits an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) applicant to obtain FDA approval to market a generic version of a drug for a non-patented use...more
Section viii of the Hatch-Waxman Act, 21 U.S.C. § 355(j)(2)(A)(viii), allows a generic applicant to “carve out” indications and other use information from its labeling that are protected by patents listed in FDA’s Orange Book...more
Addressing the issue of whether a generic pharmaceutical company can be found to induce infringement even when all patented uses have been “carved out” of the label (resulting in a so-called “skinny label”), the US Court of...more
On October 2, 2020, the Federal Circuit issued a decision in GlaxoSmithKline LLC v. Teva Pharm. USA, Inc.1 that addressed whether a generic drug manufacturer induced infringement of a method of use patent when its product...more
What Quantum of Culpable Conduct Is Required for an ANDA Applicant to Induce Infringement? The back-and-forth, (almost) cat-and-mouse-like competition between branded innovator and generic drug makers sanctioned under the...more
The PTAB Cannot Approve or Deny Certificates of Correction - In Honeywell International, Inc. v. Arkema Inc., Arkema France, Appeal Nos. 2018-1151, -1153, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“Board”) does not have the...more
PATENT CASE OF THE WEEK - HZNP Medicines LLC v. Actavis Laboratories UT, Inc., Appeal Nos. 2017-2149, et al. (Fed. Cir. Oct. 10, 2019) - In a lengthy decision following a bench trial, the Court addressed a matter of...more
In an ANDA applicant’s appeal from a bench trial judgment of validity and infringement, the Court affirmed the district court’s judgment on all counts. The case presented unusual procedural circumstances in a Hatch-Waxman...more
In a non-precedential decision issued in Braintree Labs., Inc. v. Breckenridge Pharmaceutical, Inc., the Federal Circuit reversed the district court’s grant of summary judgment of noninfringement in favor of Breckenridge, and...more
Robinson, J. Plaintiff’s motion to reopen judgment and amend the complaint is granted. Plaintiff’s request for a preliminary injunction was denied and the denial was affirmed on appeal. On September 10, 2015, Takeda...more
Andrews, J. Court makes rulings following a three-day bench trial and post-trial briefing. The disputed product in this ANDA case is 400 mg dronedarone tablets used as an antiarrhythmic drug. The court finds that...more
Addressing the scope of the safe harbor provision of § 271(e)(1), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed the district court, holding that supplying an active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) to the filer of...more
Last week, in Eli Lilly and Company v. Teva Parenteral Medicines, Inc., Judge Tanya Walton Pratt of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana determined that Eli Lilly and Company had shown by a...more
Supreme Court Holds Good Faith Belief of Patent Invalidity Is Not a Defense to Induced Infringement - Commil USA, LLC v. Cisco Systems, Inc. (Supr. Ct. May 26, 2015): Pharmaceutical patents commonly include...more
Nature of the Case and Issue(s) Presented: UTC claimed that Sandoz induced infringement of the ’007 patent by instructing physicians to dilute its product for use intravenously. The asserted claim required a particular...more