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A patient advocacy group is using a recently created pathway for challenging generic drugs through the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to contest the patent on Wyeth’s antibiotic Tygacil outside a Hatch-Waxman ANDA. Read More
Drugmakers are worried that FDA draft guidance on how to identify and report counterfeit or suspicious goods could lead to numerous false alarms and potential shortages unless the guidance is amended. Read More
McKesson agreed to pay the federal government $18 million to settle allegations the distributor improperly shipped vaccines to providers in an unusual whistleblower settlement. Read More
New Jersey-based Eisai is suing the FDA over the exclusivity clock assigned to two of its products, claiming the government arbitrarily shortened its five-year exclusivity period from generics competition. Read More
Subsidiaries of generics maker Hetero Drugs can move forward with generic versions of kidney drug PhosLo despite an ongoing lawsuit brought by patent owner Roxane Laboratories. Read More
New Jersey-based Mutual Pharmaceutical and two other generic firms are suing brand manufacturer Reckitt Benckisser for breach of contract, alleging that RB reneged on a license agreement to provide generic supplies of its cold and flu medicine Mucinex for sale. Read More
Indian generics firm Dr. Reddy’s has filed the first patent challenge against Teva’s blockbuster multiple sclerosis drug Copaxone’s 40 mg, introducing a new chapter into the Israeli drugmaker’s efforts to protect its multibillion dollar product. Read More
Pfizer will pay $35 million divided among 41 states and the District of Columbia to settle allegations it improperly marketed its immunosuppressant Rapamune for unapproved uses, a year after making a $490.9 million deal with the federal government for similar allegations. Read More