Spring is here! How do we know? Is it the cherry blossoms in peak bloom in Washington, DC? Is it the daffodils emerging from hibernation? No – we know it’s Spring because the annual American Conference Institute (“ACI”) “Paragraph IV Disputes” conference is right around …
By Kurt R. Karst – In a 17-count, 84-page Complaint filed earlier this week in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. (“Mylan”) alleges that Celgene Corporation (“Celgene”) has violated federal and state antitrust laws by preventing generic competition for …
By Kurt R. Karst – Earlier this week, Celltrion Healthcare Co., Ltd. and Celltrion, Inc. (collectively “Celltrion”) filed a Complaint for Declaratory Judgment in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts seeking a judgment with respect to certain patents allegedly covering Janssen Biotech, Inc.’s …
By Kurt R. Karst – Earlier this week, Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Representatives Joaquin Castro Joaquin Castro (D-TX) and Randy Forbes (R-VA) introduced the “Independent Innovator and Repurposing Act” in their respective houses of Congress (S. 2150; H.R. 4287). Styled as a bill “[t]o advance …
By Kurt R. Karst – In a Complaint filed last Friday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Perrigo Israel Pharmaceuticals Ltd. and Perrigo Company (collectively “Perrigo”) (represented by Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, P.C.) allege that FDA has shirked a duty under the …
By Kurt R. Karst – It was just a little more than three months ago that we blogged on the topic of “premature notice” in the context of a Complaint filed by Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (“Otsuka”) against Par Pharmaceutical, Inc. (“Par”) concerning Par’s notice of …
By JP Ellison – In a recent post we described the Generic Pharmaceutical Association’s amicus brief in the POM case, which urged the Supreme Court to “be cognizant of the differences” among FDA regulated products. In particular, GPhA urged that ‘[e]ven if petitioner is allowed to …
By Kurt R. Karst – It was only about a year ago when the topic du jour was generic drug labeling and whether federal law – the FDC Act and FDA’s implementing regulations – preempts state-law product liability claims (failure-to-warn, design defect, failure-to-conform/update, etc.) against generic …
By Kurt R. Karst – It’s “Exclusivity Week”! First there was FDA’s Draft Guidance that, if finalized, would reinterpret the 5-year New Chemical Entity (“NCE”) exclusivity provisions of the FDC Act to award NCE exclusivity to a newly approved Fixed-Dose Combination (“FDC”) drug containing an …
By Kurt R. Karst – Even before FDA gave up an appeal of Judge Edward R. Korman’s April 2013 Judgment and Order that Teva Branded Pharmaceutical Products R&D, Inc.’s (“Teva’s”) PLAN B One-Step (levonorgestrel) Tablets, 1.5 mg (“PBOS”), be made available Over-the-Counter (“OTC”) without age or …
By Kurt R. Karst – In moves that may displease both brand-name and generic drug manufacturers, and that could lead to litigation from both sides, FDA has with one hand proposed to giveth New Chemical Entity (“NCE”) exclusivity to certain Fixed-Dose Combination Drugs (“FDCs”) and has …
By Kurt R. Karst – Although it’s been more than 10 years since the December 8, 2003 enactment of the Medicare Modernization Act (“MMA”) – or, more accurately, The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, Pub. L. No. 108-173 – which created a new regime …
By Kurt R. Karst – A couple of weeks ago we announced a massive and unprecedented undertaking by FDA’s Office of Generic Drugs (“OGD”) to address an outpouring of concern about, among other things, a Manual of Policies and Procedures (“MAPP”) – MAPP 5200.3 – titled “Responding …
By Kurt R. Karst – The Electronic Age has changed nearly every aspect of our daily lives, and the day-to-day operations of the U.S. Federal Government are no different. The government is no longer open for business from 9-5, but rather 24 hours a day by …
By Kurt R. Karst – The Wachowski Brothers’ Matrix Trilogy of movies depict a post-apocalyptic world in which reality is not what it seems. The reality most people perceive is actually a simulated reality created by sentient machines – a dream world created by virtue of …
