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A federal judge signed off on a $15 million settlement to close out claims of anticompetitive behavior by Allergan and its subsidiary Warner Chilcott. Read More
A federal judge in Pennsylvania threw out AbbVie’s patent suits against generic competitors, strengthening the Federal Trade Commission’s pay-for-delay case against the drugmaker. Read More
Pharmaceutical wholesalers are meeting nearly all the product tracing information exchange requirements of the Drug Supply Chain Security Act, according to the HHS inspector general’s office. Read More
The U.S. government sided with Sandoz on the residual claims from the biosimilar manufacturer’s Supreme Court case with Amgen — arguing the federal law outlining the biosimilar approval process should preempt state laws on the topic. Read More
The PTO’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board will evaluate the validity of three Genentech patents covering its blockbuster breast cancer treatment Herceptin, following petitions for inter partes review filed by Hospira. Read More
Coherus BioSciences filed a petition with the PTO for an inter partes review of a patent on production methods for Amgen’s Enbrel (etanercept), saying the claims are obvious and unpatentable. Read More
Hedge fund investors are suing generics manufacturer Teva for not being forthcoming about a federal price-fixing investigation — saying the company’s false statements before the eventual reveal of a subpoena resulted in losses of billions in shareholder value. Read More
A Pennsylvania district court refused to certify a group of corporate and institutional drug purchasers as plaintiffs in a class-action antitrust suit against several drugmakers — saying the approximately two-dozen organizations in the class was relatively small and did not meet legal class-action requirements. Read More
Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) urged FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb to task the agency’s opioid policy steering committee with promoting “partial fill” policies to limit the number of unused pills in circulation. Read More
If Congress were to require a Medicaid-style rebate structure for Medicare Part B prescription drugs, drugmakers would have to pay at least $1.8 billion in annual rebates — about 9 percent of Medicare’s total spending on pharmaceuticals in 2015 — according to an HHS analysis. Read More