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AbbVie commenced proceedings in the US District Court of Delaware against Sandoz, Hetero Labs, Aurobindo Pharma, Intas Pharmaceuticals, Accord Healthcare and Sun Pharma, alleging infringement of 34 Rinvoq® (upadacitinib) patents, including compound, process and method of tr...

Sam Chun Dang Pharmaceutical announced in a corporate filing that it has signed an exclusive 10-year distribution agreement with an unnamed distributor regarding SCD411, biosimilar to Regeneron’s Eylea® (aflibercept), to be supplied to Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain and Swi...

CVS Caremark published its Performance Drug List for January 2024, notably removing Amgen’s Amjevita® (adalimumab), the first Humira® biosimilar launched in the US, and replacing it with Sandoz’s Hyrimoz® (adalimumab-adaz) as the preferred adalimumab product.

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Almirall announced that its received marketing authorisation from the European Commission (EC) for Ebglyss® (lebrikizumab) for the treatment of adult and adolescent patients (12 years and older with a body weight of at least 40 kg) with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis ...

Biogen, Genentech and Roche instigated proceedings against Dr Reddy’s Laboratories and Fresenius Kabi, alleging infringement of 15 patents relating to Genentech/Biogen’s Rituxan®/MabThera® (rituximab) products in the US District Court of New Jersey.  The alleged infringemen...

EirGenix announced that Herwenda®, Eirgenix and Sandoz’s biosimilar to Genentech’s Herceptin® (trastuzumab), received approval from the European Commission for the same indications as Herceptin®: HER2-positive breast cancer and metastatic gastric cancers.  On 30 April 2019,...

The US Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has instituted Samsung Bioepis’ inter partes review (IPR) against Regeneron’s Eylea® (aflibercept) patent no. 11,253,572 in IPR proceeding IPR2023-00884.  The ‘572 patent relates to methods of use of aflibercept in treating angiog...

AstraZeneca (AZ) announced the FDA approved its Truqap® (capivasertib) in combination with Faslodex (fulvestrant) for the treatment of adult patients with hormone receptor (HR)-positive, HER2-negative locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer with one or more biomarker a...

Korea Biomed reported that AbbVie’s Skyrizi® (risankizumab) has been approved by the Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) for a new indication: to treat adult patients with moderate to severe active Crohn’s disease who have not responded adequately to or can...

MSD announced that the FDA approved its Keytruda® (pembrolizumab) combined with fluoropyrimidine- and platinum-containing chemotherapy, for the first-line treatment of adults with locally advanced unresectable or metastatic human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-ne...