by April Breyer Menon | Sep 11, 2026
On September 9, 2026, the Director of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted four IPRs brought by Accord and Bio-Thera against Janssen’s method of treatment patents related to Simponi® / Simponi Aria® (golimumab): IPR2026-00256 challenging U.S....
by April Breyer Menon | Sep 4, 2026
On September 1, 2026, Takeda filed BPCIA litigation No. 2:26-cv-11301 (D.N.J.) against Alvotech’s proposed Entyvio® (vedolizumab) interchangeable biosimilar AVT16. This lawsuit was filed just days after Takeda’s case against Polpharma’s PB016 (vedolizumab)...
by April Breyer Menon | Sep 3, 2026
On September 1, 2026, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) issued a Final Written Decision (“FWD”) in PGR2025-00017 finding all remaining challenged claims of Halozyme’s U.S. Patent No. 12,110,520 (“the ’520 patent”) unpatentable. The ’520 patent was...
by April Breyer Menon | Sep 2, 2026
On August 31, 2026, Alvotech and Teva announced the FDA acceptance of an aBLA for AVT80 (vedolizumab), a proposed interchangeable biosimilar of Takeda’s Entyvio® (vedolizumab). AVT80 is a subcutaneous presentation of vedolizumab in a prefilled syringe and...
by April Breyer Menon | Aug 28, 2026
On August 26, 2026, Takeda Pharmaceuticals filed BPCIA Litigation No. 3:26-cv-11002 (D.N.J.) against Polpharma’s proposed Entyvio® (vedolizumab) biosimilar PB016, alleging infringement of six of Takeda’s method of treatment patents. This is the first...