It’s been nearly 30 years since President Ronald Reagan, on September 24, 1984, held a ceremony in the Rose Garden to sign into law the Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act of 1984, Pub. L. No. 98-417, 98 Stat. 1585 (1984) – better …
By Kurt R. Karst – In a May 14, 2014 Order following a hearing earlier that day, Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted on ripeness grounds FDA’s Motion to Dismiss a lawsuit brought by Teva Pharmaceutical Industries …
By Kurt R. Karst – In a Complaint (and Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and Expedited Preliminary Injunction) lodged in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. and Teva Neuroscience, Inc. (collectively “Teva”) allege that FDA’s May 2, 2014 denial …
By Anne K. Walsh & Kurt R. Karst – Earlier this week, Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, P.C. submitted a Citizen Petition to FDA on behalf of a client requesting that the Agency determine that Ranbaxy Laboratories, Ltd. (“Ranbaxy”) has forfeited or is not eligible for first-to-file …
By Kurt R. Karst – We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: 180-day generic drug marketing exclusivity governed by the version of the FDC Act in effect prior to the December 2003 enactment of the Medicare Modernization Act (“MMA”) is alive and kicking. . …
By Kurt R. Karst – Earlier this week, FDA issued its highly anticipated (well, at least for this blogger) Consolidated Response to two Citizen Petitions (Docket Nos. FDA-2013-P-1397 and FDA-2013-P-0884) submitted to the Agency last year by Eisai Inc. (“Eisai”) and UCB, Inc. (“UCB”) arguing that …
By Kurt R. Karst – The battle over New Chemical Entity (“NCE”) exclusivity for Fixed-Dose Combination (“FDC”) drugs continues to heat up. In a recent Petition for Reconsideration and Petition for Stay (Docket No. FDA-2013-P-0119), Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Ferring”) requestes that FDA reconsider its denial of …
By Kurt R. Karst – When FDA announced on February 21, 2014 that the Agency would, upon finalization of a draft guidance document, reinterpret the New Chemical Entity (“NCE”) exclusivity provisions of the FDC Act to award NCE exclusivity for a newly approved Fixed-Dose Combination Drug …
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 …
