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Spotlight On: Prolia® / Xgeva® (denosumab) / Jubbonti® / Wyost® (denosumab-bbdz) / Ospomyv™ / Xbryk™ (denosumab-dssb) / Stoboclo®...

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Denosumab Challenged Claim Types in Litigation: Claims are counted in each litigation, so claims from the same patent challenged in multiple litigations are counted more than once. Within each litigation a claim is counted...more

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Spotlight On: Actemra® (tocilizumab) / Tofidence™ (tocilizumab-bavi) / Tyenne® (tocilizumab-aazg) / Avtozma® (tocilizumab-anoh) -...

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Tocilizumab Challenged Claim Types in IPRs: Claims are counted in each IPR, so claims from the same patent challenged in multiple IPRs are counted more than once. Within each IPR, claims are counted only once, whether they...more

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Spotlight On: Enbrel® (etanercept) / Erelzi® (etanercept-szzs) / Eticovo® (etanercept-ykro) - August 2025

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Etanercept 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

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Spotlight On: Biosimilar Litigations - August 2025

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Biosimilar Litigations include litigations relating to biosimilar/follow-on products of CDER-listed reference products. Litigations between biosimilar applicants/manufacturers and reference product sponsors as well as...more

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Spotlight On: Rituxan® (rituximab) / Truxima® (rituximab-abbs) / Ruxience® (rituximab-pvvr) / Riabni™ (rituximab-arrx) - August...

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Rituximab 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

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Fresenius Kabi Files Two EYLEA® IPRs Prior to aBLA Filing Announcement

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On July 14, 2025, Fresenius Kabi filed IPR2025-01268 against Regeneron’s U.S. Patent No. 11,084,865 (“the ’865 patent”) and IPR2025-01269 against U.S. Patent No. 10,828,345 (“the ’345 patent”), both relating to EYLEA®...more

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Spotlight On: Herceptin® (trastuzumab) / Ogivri® (trastuzumab-dkst) / Herzuma® (trastuzumab-pkrb) / Ontruzant® (trastuzumab-dttb)...

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Trastuzumab 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

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Biopharmaceutical Patent Litigation: Regeneron’s Defense Against Biosimilar Launches

This case involves an appeal from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.’s (Regeneron) efforts to prevent defendants from marketing biosimilar versions of EYLEA®, a drug used to treat eye diseases, by asserting patent infringement....more

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

Jazz Pharma. v. Avadel CNS Pharma: Federal Circuit Applies a Fact-Specific Approach to the Patent Infringement Safe Harbor

In a precedential ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Jazz Pharma. v. Avadel CNS Pharma., 2025 WL 1298920, — F.4th — (Fed. Cir. May 6, 2025), addressed the scope of the 35 U.S.C. § 271(e)(1) “safe...more

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Spotlight On: Prolia® / Xgeva® (denosumab) / Jubbonti® / Wyost® (denosumab-bbdz) / Ospomyv™ / Xbryk™ (denosumab-dssb) / Stoboclo®...

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Denosumab Challenged Claim Types in Litigation: Claims are counted in each litigation, so claims from the same patent challenged in multiple litigations are counted more than once. Within each litigation a claim is counted...more

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Federal Circuit Refines Obviousness Framework for Drug and Biologic Dosing Regimens

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The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently affirmed a district court ruling that a pharmaceutical dosing claim limitation was unpatentable due to obviousness-type double patenting. The court found...more

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Where were biologics-related patents involved in BPCIA litigation invented?

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Inventions made in a particular country are generally first-filed in that country before entering the United States via a direct Paris Convention filing or, more commonly, a PCT national stage entry. Convenience, national...more

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Biologics and Biosimilars Landscape 2024: IP, Policy, and Market Developments

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Last year marked an all-time record of 18 Food and Drug Administration (FDA) biosimilar approvals, bringing the total number of FDA-approved biosimilars to 63. Forty-one of those biosimilars have launched in the U.S. market....more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2025)

Note: This post addresses two Federal Circuit decisions issued on January 29, 2025.  Both appeals involved Plaintiff-Appellee Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., with the first appeal involving Defendant-Appellant Formycon AG...more

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Spotlight On: Rituxan® (rituximab) / Truxima® (rituximab-abbs) / Ruxience® (rituximab-pvvr) / Riabni™ (rituximab-arrx) - February...

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Rituximab 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

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FDA Accepts BLA for Shanghai Henlius Biotech’s HLX11, a Pertuzumab Biosimilar

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​​​​​​​On February 2, 2025, Shanghai Henlius Biotech, Inc. (“Henlius”) announced FDA acceptance of the Biologics License Application (BLA) for HLX11, a proposed biosimilar to Genentech’s PERJETA....more

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Year in Review: Top Legal Developments of 2024

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​​​​​​​As 2024 has come and passed, we saw another year of significant developments in litigation involving biologics and biosimilars. The following is a recap of the top four legal developments that we covered on the Big...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

Fuerst Ittleman David & Joseph

Lilly v. FDA: Two Stories Collide to Make this GLP-1 Case a Tale of Our Time

I recently learned of Eli Lilly & Co.’s (“Lilly”) recent lawsuit against FDA from Nicole DeFeudis, who interviewed me for her Endpoints News story about the case. Lilly’s lawsuit, filed in September 2024 in the Southern...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Life in the Fast Lane: FDA Issues New Draft Guidance for Accelerated Approval of Drugs and Biologics

In 1976, the Eagles released the song, “Life in the Fast Lane,” as part of their iconic album, Hotel California. Approximately 16 years later, the Food and Drug Administration began offering pharmaceutical companies their own...more

MoFo Life Sciences

Stop-Gap Spending Bill Provision Takes Aim at Biologics Patent Litigation

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UPDATE: The stop-gap spending bill has been revised to remove the provision discussed herein. However, life sciences companies should nonetheless take note of efforts by congress to enact patent-related reforms such as this....more

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Recent Biologics Deals - December 2024

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Duality Biologics and GSK enter into an exclusive option agreement to exploit gastrointestinal cancer target, DB-1324 - On December 4, 2024, Duality Biologics (“DualityBio”), a clinical-stage biotech company focusing on...more

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Patent Term Extension For Medical Devices

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Patent term extension (PTE) under 35 U.S.C. § 156 is a statutory program that restores to a patent at least a portion of the term that was effectively lost while the covered product was undergoing regulatory review and could...more

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Blockbuster Biologics Review | Issue 25

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Welcome to our quarterly update relating to biologics and biosimilars, including post-grant and patent litigation challenges to blockbuster biologics. Since the enactment of the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act...more

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Venable’s BiologicsHQ Monthly Injection - October 2024

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Welcome to Venable’s BiologicsHQ Monthly Injection – October 2024...more

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