by April Breyer Menon | Jul 30, 2025
On July 24, 2025, the PTO Acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart discretionarily denied Amgen’s IPR2025-00601 and IPR2025-00602 challenging Bristol-Myers Squibb’s (“BMS”) U.S. Patent Nos. 9,856,320 (“the ’320 patent”) and 10,174,113 (“the ’113 patent”)...
by April Breyer Menon | Jul 29, 2025
On July 16, 2025, Amgen and Accord settled Case No. 1:25-cv-01305 (D.N.J.) / MDL 1:25-md-03138 (D.N.J.) alleging infringement of 34 of Amgen’s patents by Accord’s proposed Prolia® / Xgeva® (denosumab) biosimilar INTP23 (previously reported BPCIA Lawsuit Against...
by April Breyer Menon | Jul 24, 2025
On July 16, 2025, Bio-Thera Solutions and Accord announced the FDA acceptance of their aBLA for BAT2506, a proposed biosimilar of Janssen / Johnson & Johnson’s Simponi® (golimumab). Under a license and commercialization agreement, Bio-Thera is responsible...
by April Breyer Menon | Jul 23, 2025
On July 15, 2025, the FDA approved Biocon’s Kirsty™ (insulin aspart-xjhz) as the first interchangeable biosimilar of Novo Nordisk’s NovoLog® (insulin aspart). Biocon’s aBLA for Kirsty™ (formerly MYL-1601D) was pending since July 2020 and received...
by April Breyer Menon | Jul 21, 2025
On July 18, 2025, the FDA published a final guidance “Formal Meetings Between the FDA and Sponsors or Applicants of BsUFA Products Guidance for Industry” providing recommendations on formal meetings between the FDA and biosimilar and interchangeable applicants during...