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The US Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has instituted three of Samsung Bioepis’ inter partes reviews (IPR) petitions challenging Alexion’s Soliris® (eculizumab) patent nos. 9,725,504, 9,718,880 and 9,732,149 in IPR proceedings IPR2023-00999, IPR2023-00998 and IPR2023-0...

Bioeq and Teva jointly announced that Health Canada granted a Notice of Compliance for Ranopto® (ranibizumab), biosimilar to Genentech’s Lucentis® (ranibizumab).  Ranopto® is indicated for the treatment of neovascular (wet) age-related macular degeneration, the treatment of...

Carefirst and another Blue Cross/Blue Shield licensee have brought class action proceedings against Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and Janssen alleging that the companies unlawfully delayed the introduction of biosimilar competition for its Stelara® ustekinumab product ont...

Dr. Reddy’s and Coya Therapeutics today announced that they have entered into a development and license agreement for the development and commercialisation of COYA302, an investigational combination therapy for the treatment of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).  COYA302 ...

SystImmune and Bristol Myers Squibb announced that they have entered into an exclusive  global license and collaboration agreement for SystImmune’s BL-B01D1, a potentially first-in-class EGFRxHER3 bispecific antibody-drug conjugate.  Under the agreement the companies will j...

Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) announced that the FDA has accepted for priority review its supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) for Opdivo® (nivolumab) in combination with cisplatin-based chemotherapy as a first-line treatment for adult patients with unresectable o...

The Canadian Federal Court has refused AbbVie’s application for a permanent injunction against JAMP for exploitation of Simlandi® until the expiration of AbbVie’s Humira® patent no. 2,904,458.  Despite JAMP conceding it infringed the ‘458 patent, it successfully argued that...

Roche and Carmot Therapeutics announced a US$2.7B agreement for Roche to acquire Carmot Therapeutics, including its R&D portfolio of clinical stage incretins.  The deal also provides for potential additional milestone payments of up to US$400M.

As part of the acq...