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EmblemHealth Files Class Action Antitrust Against Alexion Related to Eculizumab

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​​​​​​​On April 16, 2025, EmblemHealth, Inc. (“Emblem”) filed a class action suit in the District Court for the District of Massachusetts against Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Alexion Pharma International Operations Ltd....more

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AbbVie and Besins Healthcare Settle Oregon Antitrust Allegations Over Testosterone Drug

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Oregon AG Dan Rayfield settled with AbbVie Inc. and Besins Healthcare, Inc. to resolve allegations that the pharmaceutical companies engaged in anti-competitive conduct relating to the sale of testosterone replacement gel in...more

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Competition Tribunal refuses JAMP leave to commence ustekinumab abuse of dominance application

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As we previously reported, JAMP sought leave to commence an application against Janssen under the abuse of dominance provisions of the Competition Act (the Act), relating to ustekinumab (Janssen’s STELARA and FINLIUS). This...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Intellectual Property & Health: Need to Know - France & Europe - February 2022

UNIFIED PATENT COURT - The Unified Patent Court (UPC) should become a reality in 2022 or in the first few months of 2023. The Protocol on Provisional Application (PPA) of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (AUPC)...more

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Federal Circuit Finds Preemption Of State Law Penalty For Sitting Out Biosimilar Patent Dance

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The Federal Circuit has issued its final decision in the biosimilar patent litigation between Amgen and Sandoz over the first product to be approved under the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (BPCIA). Not...more

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Analysis of Amgen v. Sandoz Federal Circuit Opinion

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The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals issued its long-awaited decision in the remand of Amgen v. Sandoz from the U.S. Supreme Court. In that decision, the Federal Circuit held that Amgen’s state law claims, based on the...more

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Hogan Lovells ITC Section 337 Monthly Highlights

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The latest news round-up from our Hogan Lovells ITC Section 337 practice, including a new section featuring "tips from the bench" by former ITC Judge Theodore (Ted) R. Essex. ...more

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FLANAX: Protecting Foreign Marks from US Unfair Competition Under Section 43(a)

In today’s increasingly global economy, trademark owners are more frequently butting up against the territorial limitations of trademark law. It has long been a matter of black letter law that trademark rights are...more

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Federal Circuit Issues Its First Decision Interpreting BPCIA

The courts must “say what the law is,” even when that law, as Judge Lourie described the BPCIA, is “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” Today, in Amgen Inc. v. Sandoz Inc., No. 2015-1499 (Fed. Cir. July 23,...more

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Alert: Fractured Federal Circuit Provides Guidance on Biosimilars Patent Dance

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Both Sides Come Away with Wins in Amgen v. Sandoz - Yesterday, in Amgen, Inc. v. Sandoz, Inc., the Federal Circuit construed multiple provisions of the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2009 (“BPCIA”). ...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Allergan, Inc. v. Athena Cosmetics, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2013) -- FDCA Does Not Preempt State Unfair Competition Laws

If you have ever wondered how popular eyelash enhancers like RevitaLash and Latisse produce their effects, Allergan, Inc. v. Athena Cosmetics, Inc. provides the answer: these products comprise prostaglandin derivatives. The...more

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