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Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

Entresto Trade Dress Dispute: No Injunctive Relief for Novartis

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On July 15, 2025, Judge Evelyn Padin of the District of New Jersey denied Novartis’s motion for preliminary injunction, which would have blocked MSN Laboratories Pvt. Ltd. from selling a generic version of Novartis’s Entresto...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Trade Dress Disputes Continue To Be a Bitter Pill in Pharma

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A recent federal court decision highlights the delicate balance between U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidance and trade dress protections for drugs administered in a tablet or capsule form. Last month, a district...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Novartis Pharms. Corp. v. MSN Pharms., Inc.

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Entresto® (valsartan/sacubitril) - Case Name: Novartis Pharms. Corp. v. MSN Pharms., Inc., Nos. 2024-2211, 2024-2212, 2024 WL 4969281 (Fed. Cir. Dec. 4, 2024) (Circuit Judges Lourie, Prost, and Reyna presiding; Opinion by...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Biosimilars in 2020: What’s Ahead

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The Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2009 (BPCIA) was passed as part of health reform signed into law by President Obama in March 2010. This year, the BPCIA turns 10. While the U.S. Biosimilars Pathway has...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Statements of Efficacy and Safety Material Claim Limitations

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In Allergan Sales, LLC v. Sandoz, Inc., (Fed. Cir. 2018-2207, Aug. 29, 2019), the Federal Circuit held that “wherein” clauses in a patent claim were limitations because the “wherein” elements were material to patentability....more

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Otsuka Pharm. Co., Ltd. v. Torrent Pharms. Ltd., Inc.

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Case Name: Otsuka Pharm. Co., Ltd. v. Torrent Pharms. Ltd., Inc., Civ. No. 14-1078 (JBS/KMW), 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 50082 (D.N.J. Apr. 16, 2015) (Simandle, C.J.) - Drug Product and Patent(s)-in-Suit: Abilify®...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Second Circuit Affirms Preliminary Injunction in People of the State of New York v. Actavis PLC

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We’ve previously covered the New York State Attorney General’s (“NYS AG”) lawsuit against Actavis PLC and Forest Laboratories seeking to prevent them from discontinuing sales of the Forest drug Namenda IR, which is used to...more

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Actavis Loses Nameda® Appeal Over “Hot Documents”

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit’s opinion (issued May 22, 2015 with a public, redacted version available May 28, 2015), affirming the district court’s grant of a preliminary injunction in State of New York v....more

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Preliminary Injunction Order in Actavis Casts a Skeptical Eye Toward the “Hard Switch”

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Last week, we briefly reported on the injunction granted by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in the New York Attorney General’s “product hopping” suit against Actavis and its subsidiary, Forest...more

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Preliminary Injunction Precludes Actavis from Pulling Current Version of Namenda off the Market

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Yesterday, Judge Robert Sweet granted the New York Attorney General’s request to block Actavis and its New York-based subsidiary Forest Laboratories LLC from pulling Namenda, a dementia drug commonly used to treat...more

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