FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

JUNE 27, 2023

Amongst his accomplishments, Law360 considered the role James has played in leveraging little-used pathways to FDA approval for often first-ever drugs to treat rare diseases (e.g., James was only one of five life sciences attorneys selected and the only food and drug lawyer to make the list.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

Amphastar’s newly approved synthetic peptide product was determined by the FDA to be bioequivalent and therapeutically equivalent to Eli Lilly’s Glucagon Emergency Kit for Low Blood Sugar, which has a recombinant DNA (rDNA)-origin. This market information is based on IQVIA data for the 12 months ended September 30, 2020.

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FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

APRIL 21, 2024

Usually at this point in a post we would identify the date of approval of the relevant NDA. But that’s the controversy here: Did FDA approve LYTGOBI NDA 214801 on September 30, 2022 when the Agency issued its initial approval letter , or on October 5, 2022 when FDA issued a corrected approval letter ?

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FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

156, a patent may be extended only once (even if it would be eligible for extension on more than one occasion because it applies to several FDA-approved products), and only one patent may be extended for each regulatory review period. Part 1: Multiple PTEs Under the PTE statute at 35 U.S.C. § To that end, 35 U.S.C. § 156(c)(4)

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FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

JANUARY 18, 2024

We blogged about CVM last week and explained the increasing attention to animal health products due to the expansion of the animal and pet product market. District Court challenging FDA’s plan to remove their products from the market. Specifically, FDA is looking to remove a drug called carbadox from the market.

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FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

JANUARY 4, 2024

This unique forum, designed for in-house counsel and executives, as well as private practice attorneys working for the OTC drug industry will provide invaluable insights on FDA’s most recent directives and compliance standards governing OTC drug production, marketing and distribution.

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FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

APRIL 30, 2023

1067, the “ Ensuring Timely Access to Generics Act of 2023 ,” and it would fundamentally transform the playing field for NDA, ANDA, BLA, and aBLA applicants seeking to preserve their rights in the wake of an adverse FDA approval decision. That bill is S.

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FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

MAY 15, 2023

However, most states incorporate the ingredients listed in the AAFCO Official Publication (OP) into their state laws, so the AAFCO feed ingredient definitions facilitate the interstate marketing of animal food ingredients. Most states treat the OP as a “positive list” of ingredients that may be included in animal foods.

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FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

JULY 5, 2023

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. Section II at 2.

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FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

AUGUST 12, 2024

For animal drugs approved under FDC Act § 512, the “testing phase” begins on the earlier of the effective date of an Investigation New Animal Drug (“INAD”) exemption or the date a major health or environmental effects test on the drug was initiated and ends on the date a NADA is “initially submitted” to FDA under FDC Act § 512(b).

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Agency IQ

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Fees are also used for a host of other activities meant to improve the FDA’s regulatory capacity and capabilities, such as I.T. Until recently, the FDA relied on a monograph process through which firms could bring OTC drugs to market without FDA approval so long as it adhered to pre-set terms under the monograph.

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FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Food and Drug Administration – labeled an “Official Action Indicated” classification – is generally devastating for the facility, not least because it can stall FDA approval of applications to market drugs manufactured at the facility.

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FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The use of a surrogate endpoint can considerably shorten the time required prior to receiving FDA approval. If the confirmatory trial shows that the drug actually provides a clinical benefit, then the FDA grants traditional approval for the drug.

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The Pharma Data

AUGUST 1, 2021

Percent on an Operational Basis, Due to Biosimilar Competition; Global Skyrizi Net Revenues Were $674 Million; Global Rinvoq Net Revenues Were $378 Million – Second-Quarter Global Net Revenues from the Hematologic Oncology Portfolio Were $1.816 Billion, an Increase of 14.1 percent on an operational basis, due to biosimilar competition.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 27, 2020

As a reminder, there currently is no FDA approval pathway to develop a generic or biosimilar copy of a cell therapy product, which provides a significant barrier-to-entry from generic competition.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Percent on an Operational Basis, Due to Biosimilar Competition; Global Skyrizi Net Revenues Were $1.590 Billion; Global Rinvoq Net Revenues Were $731 Million. percent on an operational basis, due to biosimilar competition. Humira Net Revenues Were $16.112 Billion, an Increase of 8.4 Percent on a Reported Basis, or 12.5 Recorded a $4.7

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The Pharma Data

OCTOBER 29, 2020

approval & positive CHMP opinion for ULTOMIRIS 100 mg/mL higher concentration formulation in paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) & aHUS. Established ULTOMIRIS as new standard of care in PNH ahead of set goal, with more than 70% patient conversion from SOLIRIS ® (eculizumab) in 3 largest markets – U.S. Received U.S.

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The Pharma Data

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

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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FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

AUGUST 21, 2023

Livornese — I saw the sign…and the answer is no—FDA-approved labeling apparently is not enough under state failure-to-warn laws, according to certain courts. Most OTC drugs, particularly drugs that have been around for a while, are primarily marketed pursuant to OTC monographs.

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Agency IQ

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Amanda Conti, AgencyIQ What kind of biologic products entered the market? For example, these products face a much more arduous path for development of biosimilar or interchangeable products than that of generics for small molecules. As AgencyIQ has previously discussed , developing biosimilars is an expensive process.

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FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

MAY 11, 2023

If an FDA-approved carve-out could support an intent to induce infringement claim, the use of the “section viii pathway would be substantially deterred.”

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FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

JANUARY 18, 2024

Rescheduling Analyses, 2016 DEA noted in 2016 that a drug had a currently accepted medical use for purposes of the CSA if it was the subject of an approved new drug application (“NDA”) under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. FDA, Basis for the Recommendation to Reschedule Marijuana Into Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act, 3.

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FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

MARCH 13, 2024

After all, it never invested the time and resources necessary to obtain approval for commercial marketing or use. the marketing applicant before the Food and Drug Administration to support the application for patent term extension of U.S. That was the case in the PTO’s April 3, 1995 decision denying a PTE as to U.S. Lehman , No.

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The Pharma Data

AUGUST 3, 2021

Product sales increased 3% globally, driven by double digit volume growth across a number of our products including Prolia ® (denosumab), Repatha ® (evolocumab) and our biosimilar products MVASI ® (bevacizumab-awwb) and KANJINTI ® (trastuzumab-anns). AMGEVITA continued to be the most prescribed adalimumab biosimilar in Europe.

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Agency IQ

JANUARY 19, 2024

Seventeen products were orphan drugs, fourteen were generics and eight were biosimilars. Eight products received recommendations for conditional marketing authorization and one product was reviewed “under exceptional circumstances.” Reviews of orphan medicines and biosimilars have remained stable over the past three years.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

This approval expands Biogen’s industry-leading portfolio of MS treatments, which also includes the subcutaneous (SC) administration of Plegridy, and follows the European Commission’s marketing authorization for the IM administration in December 2020. “At Related Articles: Plegridy (peginterferon beta-1a) FDA Approval History.

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FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

CMS did not finalize the price verification survey, which would have required manufacturers of 10 costly drugs selected annually to provide clinical information as well as information on production, distribution, research, and marketing costs, revenue and profit, and ex-U.S. pricing, among other things.

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Agency IQ

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The proposed rule will identify certain bulk drug substances that FDA has considered and is proposing to place on the 503A Bulks List and certain bulk drug substances that FDA has considered and is proposing not to include on the 503A Bulks List. the drug and device) of the combination product.

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Agency IQ

JUNE 2, 2023

Curiously, there is no direction for the patient to seek out the full FDA-approved labeling. Information included in the PMI : FDA intends that the PMI would “highlight the most important information that patients need to know to help them use their prescription drug products safely and effectively.”

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Agency IQ

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

AgencyIQ October 1 Nitrosamine testing due to FDA. Due to the presence of nitrosamines in certain drug products, FDA had required that drug manufacturers conduct an initial risk assessment of approved or marketed products, with an initial completion date of October 1, 2021, and then confirmatory testing due by October 1, 2023.

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The Pharma Data

APRIL 27, 2021

and strong uptake in global markets, including China. to €137 million reflecting continued growth in AD in key countries and additional launches in asthma in European markets. In Europe, generic competition has started in certain countries after the expiration of Jevtana ® ’s market exclusivity in March 2021. Change at CER.

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APRIL 7, 2023

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for review the Supplemental New Drug Applications (sNDAs) for BRAFTOVI® (encorafenib) + MEKTOVI® (binimetinib) for patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with a BRAF V600E mutation, as detected by an FDA-approved test. In the U.S., Ono Pharmaceutical Co.

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Agency IQ

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The proposed rule will identify certain bulk drug substances that FDA has considered and is proposing to place on the 503A Bulks List and certain bulk drug substances that FDA has considered and is proposing not to include on the 503A Bulks List. the drug and device) of the combination product.

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FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Few would oppose FDA-approved marijuana-derived medications if marijuana compounds are found to have medical value; the National Institute of Health should continue to fund research on any potential medical value of marijuana and on the harms of highly potent products.

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MAY 4, 2021

Multiple innovative and biosimilar products across our portfolio delivered growth, demonstrating the strength of our business and the depth and breadth of our growth drivers. and four additional selling days in international markets. This guidance may be adjusted in the future as additional contracts are executed.

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FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

JANUARY 8, 2025

Amneal filed an ANDA seeking approval to market a generic and filed Paragraph IV certifications for those 9 patents; Teva sued Amneal for infringement of 6 of those patentslater amended to 5and triggered a 30 month stay. Nine patents are listed in the Orange Book with ProAir HFA.

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FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

OCTOBER 13, 2024

A recent analysis from NORD showed that among the 39 rare pediatric diseases for which vouchers were awarded, only three had any FDA-approved products on the market before the program’s enactment.

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