Drug pricing has been a hot button issue in the U.S. for decades, and patent protections have been cited as a source of “gamesmanship” allowing brand companies to keep drug prices high. Yet, as long as FDA and FTC have been trying to address anticompetitive …
The Build Back Better Act—the food and drug law implications of which we discussed last year—has popped up again in Congress, and it is just as dense as ever. With 190 pages dedicated to prescription drug pricing reform, the program is ambitious…and complicated. As we explained …
There is a lot to unpack in the 430 pages of FDASLA, which means that some provisions are falling a little under the radar. One of those provisions is an unusual one in which Congress directs FDA to issue final rules concerning Over-the-Counter hearing aids. …
Market exclusivities—patent or otherwise—are a critical part of the Hatch-Waxman compromise, intended to encourage continued innovation in spite of the introduction of generic competition. Even a month of market exclusivity is financially lucrative enough to fight for, so it is no surprise that a company …
As the User Fee Acts move through Congress, it has been clear that FDA is using them as a vehicle to legislatively overturn some big court losses over the last few years. As faithful readers of our blog know, FDA’s broad interpretations of its governing …
A little less than a year ago, it was PANDA-monium at FDA when the Agency created a new category of drug applications called the PANDA—or the Pre-Hatch-Waxman Abbreviated New Drug Application—which referred to abbreviated drug applications submitted and approved prior to the enactment of the …
Our last post on the Eleventh Circuit’s September 2021 decision in Catalyst v. Becerra got a lot of attention. We’d like to think that this is because the scope of orphan drug exclusivity is as fascinating to everyone as it is to us, but if …
Legislation has been proposed in Congress that would require FDA to regulate all contrast agents as drugs even though two courts determined that doing so clearly contradicts the plain language of the Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act (“FDC Act”). Unless amended, the proposed legislation …
It’s not often that FDA issues an “Immediately in Effect Guidance,” but it’s not often that a case like Genus v. FDA comes along and upends twenty years of FDA practice. Almost a year after the D.C. Circuit held that products that simultaneously meet both …
With our second OPDP enforcement letter of 2022, FDA is making one thing clear: OPDP will find your promotional content—even when it may not look like promotional content. While it’s not mind-blowing that OPDP would find a series of videos while scrolling Instagram (particularly when …
Because a drug is designated an “Orphan” if it is intended to treat a “rare condition,” the condition itself always has been integral to Orphan Drug Exclusivity. Indeed, the condition for which the product is intended to treat dictates the prevalence calculation by which FDA …
Well, OPDP is kicking off 2022 in a big way – taking on an Eli Lilly Instagram post with video for Trulicity. This is the second time in a little over a month that Eli Lilly has found itself caught in OPDP’s cross-hairs. On the …
I don’t mean to be so pessimistic, but 18 months after opening a docket requesting comments on potential “modernizations” for the Orange Book and one year after the passage of the Orange Book Transparency Act, FDA issued its Report on Orange Book reform essentially concluding …
Since the August 2021 decision in GSK v. Teva, the generic industry has been waiting with bated breath to see whether the section viii carve-out (and thus skinny-labeled generic drugs) will survive. With the District Court of Delaware’s January 4 decision in a similar case …
Since California passed AB 824: Preserving Access to Affordable Drugs in September 2019, the Association for Accessible Medicines (“AAM”) has been trying to invalidate the law, which imposes a presumption of anticompetitive effect on any Paragraph IV patent settlement in which the generic sponsor receives …
