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Parties in Amgen v. Hospira Pegfilgrastim Litigation Stipulate to Dismissal...
On March 19, 2022, the parties in the Amgen Inc. v. Hospira Inc. (D. Del., No. 20-201) NEULASTA®/pegfilgrastim litigation submitted a stipulation to dismiss all claims and counterclaims in the...
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Parties in Amgen v. Hospira Filgrastim Litigation Stipulate to Dismissal of...
On September 2, 2021, the parties in the Amgen v. Hospira (D. Del., No. 18-1064) Neupogen®/filgrastim litigation submitted a stipulation and proposed order to dismiss all claims and counterclaims in...
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Summary Judgment Practice Scheduled in Amgen v. Hospira Pegfilgrastim Case
As we previously reported, Judge Connolly of the District of Delaware stayed the dispute between Amgen and Hospira last month, pending a determination on whether the Court should entertain summary...
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Amgen v. Hospira Pegfilgrastim Case Stayed Pending Potential Summary Judgment...
On June 16, 2021, the District Court for the District of Delaware issued a claim construction order construing a key term in the ongoing patent dispute between Amgen and Hospira over Hospira’s proposed...
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Motion to Dismiss Denied in Amgen v. Hospira BPCIA
At the end of last month, Judge Connolly denied defendants Hospira and Pfizer’s motion to dismiss following a telephone conference with the parties. We previously reported back in February 2020 that...
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Federal Circuit Denies Hospira’s Petition to Rehear Safe Harbor Ruling in...
The Federal Circuit has declined to reconsider its December 2019 affirmance of the district court ruling in the Amgen v. Hospira (epoetin alfa) dispute. As we have previously reported, that ruling...
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Amgen Responds to Hospira’s Motion For Rehearing En Banc of the Safe Harbor...
We previously reported that Hospira filed a petition for rehearing en banc of the Federal Circuit’s affirmance of a $70 million damages award to Amgen in the parties’ BPCIA litigation regarding...
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Amgen Files Cross-Appeal In Epoetin Alfa Biosimilar Case
Early last month, we reported that in the Amgen v. Hospira BPCIA litigation concerning Hospira’s Retacrit (epoetin alfa) biosimilar, Hospira had filed an appeal to the Federal Circuit from the Delaware...
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Hospira Appeals $80 Million Judgment in Epoetin Alfa Biosimilar Case
As we reported, last month in the Amgen v. Hospira litigation concerning Hospira’s Retacrit (epoetin alfa) biosimilar, the Delaware district court entered final judgment against Hospira, awarding Amgen...
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Final Judgment Entered Against Hospira for Infringing Amgen’s Epoetin Patent
As we have previously reported, a jury in September 2017 issued a $70,000,000 verdict against Hospira based on its drug substance manufacturing activity in 2013-2015 in connection with its biosimilar...
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Judge Sets Trial Date in Janssen v. Celltrion Should Summary Judgment Be Denied
As we reported here, in the patent dispute between Janssen and Defendants Celltrion and Hospira relating to Inflectra® (infliximab-dyyb), a biosimilar of Remicade®, there are multiple motions for...
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Janssen v. Celltrion: Summary Judgment Update
The past week saw further developments in the ongoing patent dispute between Janssen and Defendants Celltrion and Hospira relating to Inflectra® (infliximab-dyyb), a biosimilar of Remicade®. First, on...
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Janssen v. Celltrion: Motions to Exclude or Limit Evidence and Testimony from...
With the pre-trial conference set to begin on February 6, 2017, the parties in Janssen v. Celltrion have filed several motions seeking to exclude or limit certain evidence and testimony that may be...
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Janssen v. Celltrion: Janssen Appeals Judgment Invalidating the ’471 Patent
As we previously reported, on September 26, 2016, the district court in Janssen v. Celltrion entered partial final judgment that the ’471 patent, asserted by Janssen, was invalid. Today, Janssen filed...
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Hospira Files Motion for JMOL, Challenging Jury’s $70M Damages Award
As we recently reported, a federal jury awarded Amgen $70 million in damages last week after finding that Hospira’s manufacture of 14 batches of drug substance between 2013 and 2015 was not protected...
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Amgen v. Hospira: Litigation Update
With the September 18, 2017 trial date fast approaching, the district court in Amgen v. Hospira last week denied Hospira’s motion for summary judgment of non-infringement of its proposed biosimilar of...
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Board Grants Hospira Mixed Results on its Five Petitions for IPR of...
The Board granted Hospira a mixed result in its numerous challenges to Genentech’s patents directed to different aspects of Genentech’s trastuzumab product: The Board instituted IPR of U.S. Patent No....
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Amgen Withdraws Its Motion For Preliminary Injunction Against Hospira
On July 12, 2017, Amgen filed a Notice of Withdrawal of its Motion for Preliminary Injunction. As we previously reported, Amgen had filed an amended opening brief in support of its motion for...
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Hospira Opposes Amgen’s PI Motion in Amgen v. Hospira
On July 6, 2017, Hospira filed a publically available redacted version of its brief responding to Amgen’s motion for a preliminary injunction (PI). As we previously reported, following the Supreme...
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Pfizer Files Two Petitions for IPR of Genentech’s Trastuzumab Patent
Pfizer has filed two petitions for IPR of U.S. Patent 8,591,897, owned by Genentech: IPR2017-01726 and IPR2017-01727. According to the petitions, the ‘897 patent is directed to methods for treating...
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