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India’s patent office sided with a challenge from generics maker Cipla and struck down a patent protecting Boehringer Ingleheim’s blockbuster COPD drug Spiriva. Read More
A federal appeals court has extended an injunction barring four companies from marketing generic versions of AstraZeneca’s blockbuster inhaled asthma drug Pulmicort Respules while it hears an appeal of a lower court ruling that invalidated the brandmaker’s patent on the drug. Read More
Bristol-Myers Squibb has submitted a new NDA for its hepatitis C drug Daklinza, this time in combination with Gilead Sciences’ Sovaldi for patients with genotype 3 disease. Read More
China’s drug approval backlog ballooned to nearly 18,600 applications by the end of 2014, up more than 30 percent from December 2013, with generics applications representing most of the increase. Read More
The FDA still plans on finalizing the highly controversial proposed rule giving generics makers the same authority brandmakers have to update their product labels without agency approval when new safety information about a drug emerges. Read More
A federal judge upheld the FDA’s decision to strip Ranbaxy of its tentative ANDA approvals for two drugs because of GMP problems at manufacturing facilities, but nonetheless blasted the agency, saying it never should have issued the approvals in the first place. Read More
Manufacturers of biosimilar insulin-containing products must demonstrate pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic similarity profiles to prove similar efficacy to their reference insulin, the European Medicines Agency says in final guidance issued this week. Read More