By Kurt R. Karst – It seems that hardly a day goes by without something new happening concerning patent settlement agreements. They are generally referred to as “pay-for-delay” agreements; however, that’s a bit of a loaded term, and one we try to avoid. We just …
By Kurt R. Karst – In a pair of Federal Register notices (here and here) set for publication on August 27, 2012, and in a pair of draft guidance documents released ahead of their announcement in the Federal Register next week (here and here), FDA …
By Kurt R. Karst – Just before Congress recessed for the month of August, and less than a month after the July 9th enactment of the FDA Safety and Innovation Act, several FDA-related bills were placed in the hoppers in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House …
By Kurt R. Karst – Efforts to include a 12-year period of exclusivity for biological products in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (“TPP”) agreement chapter on intellectual property rights are alive and well as folks ramp up for the 14th negotiating round of the TPP, which will take …
By Kurt R. Karst – It’s been nearly nine years since the enactment of the Medicare Modernization Act (“MMA”), which, among other things, changed the regime for 180-day generic drug marketing exclusivity from a “patent-by-patent” approach (under which shared exclusivity can exist for cross-Paragraph IV filers …
By Kurt R. Karst – That’s the picture conjured up when we plugged some dates into the new model for calculating forfeiture of 180-day generic drug marketing exclusivity for certain ANDAs – what we are calling “window ANDAs” – covered by Section 1133 of the recently …
By Kurt R. Karst – We were eager to delve into the Federal Circuit’s recent 2-1 decision in Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Amphastar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Docket Nos. 2012-1062, -1103, -1104) concernng the scope of the Hatch-Waxman “safe harbor” provision at 35 U.S.C. § 271(e)(1), particularly in …
By Kurt R. Karst – There’s a lot of parlance (legal and scientific) bandied about in the food and drug world, and perhaps nowhere more so than in the world of Hatch-Waxman. Things can get confusing. Take, for example, the term “Reference Listed Drug,” or “RLD.” FDA’s …
By Kurt R. Karst – Ever since the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued its opinion in May 2012 in Bartlett v. Mutual Pharmaceutical Co., ___ F.3d ___, 2012 WL 1522004 (1st Cir. May 2, 2012) denying Mutual Pharmaceutical Company’s (“Mutual’s”) appeal of …
By Kurt R. Karst – Last week, Representative William Keating (D-MA) announced the introduction of new legislation – the Stop Tampering of Prescription Pills Act of 2012, or STOPP Act (H.R. 6160) – that is intended to direct companies “to invest in research and production to …
Earlier this week, President Obama signed into law the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act (“FDASIA”) (usually pronounced “fuh-day-zha”). In addition to reauthorizing and amending several drug and medical device provisions that were scheduled to sunset, FDASIA establishes new user fee statutes for …
By Douglas B. Farquhar – In a long-awaited ruling, a federal judge has upheld FDA’s decision to grant approval to the generic version of Xibrom®, an ophthalmic product for treatment after cataract surgery (active ingredient: bromfenac). The opinion was issued Monday by Judge James Gwin of the …
By Kurt R. Karst – In a decision that, unless appealed, marks the end of AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP’s (“AstraZeneca’s”) battle with FDA over the approval of generic versions of the company’s blockbuster antipsychotic drug SEROQUEL (quetiapine fumarate) Tablets, the U.S. District Court for the District of …
By Kurt R. Karst – We’ve been wondering for a while now when FDA might be asked in a public forum to decide on the issue of whether a “first applicant” eligible for a period of 180-day generic drug marketing exclusivity has forfeited such eligibility if …
By Kurt R. Karst – Nearly seven years after having received a citizen petition (FDA Docket No. FDA-2005-P-0120) requesting that FDA apply more stringent and unconventional bioequivalence requirements (and twice supplemented – here and here – along the way) before approving generic versions of ADDERALL XR …
