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Astellas Pharma has settled a class action lawsuit that accuses the brandmaker of filing a frivolous citizen petition and subsequent lawsuit solely to delay generic competition to its transplant drug Prograf. Read More
Mylan and Abbott have submitted proposed commitments to the European Commission’s competition oversight body to allay anti-competitive concerns over a proposed merger that would reincorporate Mylan in the Netherlands. Read More
Actavis must keep its Alzheimer’s drug Namenda on the market for now, but a recent agreement with the New York Attorney General will let the company avoid notifying more than half a million people of that fact. Read More
A federal appeals court is expected to rule next month in a dispute over Actavis’ plan to pull an older formulation of its blockbuster Alzheimer’s drug Namenda from the market and replace it with a newer version. Read More
India appears to be working somewhat on its reputation as being unfriendly to foreign drug patents, with a court temporarily blocking Cipla from marketing its own generic version of Novartis’ COPD therapy Onbrez. Read More
The Federal Trade Commission counted 29 pay-for-delay deals in fiscal year 2013 out of a total of 145 patent litigation settlements between brand and generic drugmakers — a slight decline from 2012, but in line with the two previous years. Read More
In a closely watched case, a federal judge has denied Celgene’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit alleging the brandmaker engaged in anticompetitive conduct by refusing to turn over product samples for ANDA bioequivalence testing. Read More
Colorado lawmakers have introduced a biosimilar substitution bill that closely mirrors at least one aspect of compromise language unveiled by industry leaders last month — elimination of prescriber notification in favor of entering a switch into an electronic database. Read More