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FDA Knows Its Own Strength—and It Includes Concentration

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

Amongst other things, FDA co-opted many of the same definitions for key terms for implementation of the BPCIA. Specifically, Boehringer asked FDA to interpret “strength” for biosimilars to mean “total drug content” to the exclusion of “concentration.” FDA thus disagrees that such differences are not clinically meaningful.

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FDA Accepts for Review Pfizer’s Supplemental Application for ABRILADA™ (adalimumab-afzb) Interchangeability

The Pharma Data

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for review the Prior Approval Supplement (PAS) to the Biologics License Application (BLA) for ABRILADA™ (adalimumab-afzb) as an interchangeable biosimilar to Humira® (adalimumab). The Biosimilar User Fee Act (BsUFA) goal date for an FDA decision is in Q4 2022. “An

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Analysis Life Sciences Thank You Updated guidance on promotional labeling for biosimilars and interchangeables emphasizes a similar approach

Agency IQ

Updated guidance on promotional labeling for biosimilars and interchangeables emphasizes a similar approach Today, the FDA issued a revised draft guidance on the development of promotional labeling for biosimilars, reference products, and—newly—interchangeable products.

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Article EMA Thank You EMA’s 2023 new medicines report suggests return to pre-pandemic volume

Agency IQ

Seventeen products were orphan drugs, fourteen were generics and eight were biosimilars. Reviews of orphan medicines and biosimilars have remained stable over the past three years. There were eight biosimilars reviewed in 2023, which is comparable to 2021 (seven) and 2022 (eight), but lower than 2020, which saw 12 biosimilars reviewed.

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Surely You Must be Kidding, PTO?!? “No, and Don’t Call Me Shirley!” – The Seemingly Slapstick (But Yet Unfunny) World of Recent Patent Term Extension Decisions (PART 3. and PART 3½)

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

4,631,286, where the PTO considered “whether Hoechst-Roussel is eligible to file an application for [PTE] based on a regulatory review conducted by its competitor, the marketing applicant Warner-Lambert, wherein Hoechst-Roussel was not associated with the regulatory review that led to FDA approval for commercial marketing of the approved product.”

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The Wholesaling Prohibition (Potentially) Demystified? FDA’s Take on Supply Chains for Section 503B Outsourcing Facilities

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

As a reminder, in Title I of the 2013 Drug Quality and Security Act (DQSA) (the Compounding Quality Act), Congress created the “outsourcing facility” FDA registration category, and set forth statutory parameters for their operation in new section 503B of the FDCA. See 21 U.S.C. 353b(a). Section II at 2. Draft Guidance III.B.2(e)

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Teva Announces Settlement with Lupin Resolving AUSTEDO® (deutetrabenazine) Patent Dispute

The Pharma Data

Under the terms of the settlement agreement, the litigation between the parties in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey will be ended, and Lupin will have a license to sell its generic product beginning April 2033, or earlier under certain circumstances. Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.