Recently, District Judge John Z. Lee of the Northern District of Illinois refused to dismiss a patent infringement suit brought under the Biosimilar Price Competition and Innovation Act (“BPCIA”) against a foreign parent company on the grounds that the domestic subsidiary was not a necessary party. See AbbVie Inc. v. Alvotech hf., No. 21-cv-02258 (N.D.…
On October 9th, we wrote about a potentially significant Federal Circuit decision concerning “skinny” labels in GSK v. Teva. Today we write to discuss another important facet of this decision: guidance concerning the availability of lost profits in the generic drug context. This case involved GlaxoSmithKline’s (“GSK’s”) patent covering the use of carvedilol (sold as…
The Federal Circuit recently dismissed an appeal of an adverse IPR decision by a generic pharmaceutical company for lack of Article III standing, finding that the company—which had yet to file an ANDA—had not suffered an injury-in-fact. The underlying IPR, originally filed by Apotex, involved U.S. Patent No. 9,187,405 (directed to methods of treating multiple…
Part of the ACA’s sweeping healthcare reform was the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation (BCPI) Act of 2009, which re-classified certain drugs that had previously been regulated under the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. Insulin, for example, has historically been treated as a drug product, but will be classified as a biological product (and, therefore,…