On March 18, 2025, Alvotech and Dr. Reddy’s announced that the FDA accepted their Biologics Licensing Application (BLA) for AVT03 (denosumab), referencing Amgen’s PROLIA® and XGEVA®. After FDA approval, Alvotech and Dr. Reddy’s expect AVT03 to be supplied in a single-dose prefilled syringe containing 60 mg in a 1 mL…
On March 12, 2025, Celltrion announced the commercial launch of STEQEYMA® (ustekinumab-stba), a biosimilar of Janssen’s STELARA® (ustekinumab), in the United States. As we previously reported, the biosimilar was approved by the FDA in December 2024 for subcutaneous injection or intravenous infusion in adult and pediatric patients for treatment of…
On March 9, 2025, Celltrion announced that the FDA has approved OMLYCLO® (omalizumab-igec), the first and only biosimilar of XOLAIR® (omalizumab). The FDA approved OMLYCLO® with an interchangeability designation based on positive phase III data demonstrating comparable efficacy and safety profile with XOLAIR® (omalizumab), which is co-promoted by Genentech and…
On March 14, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia’s denial of a preliminary injunction against Amgen Inc. (“Amgen”) in the ongoing aflibercept BPCIA litigation. On October 1, 2024, the district court denied Regeneron’s motion for…
On March 3, 2025, Amneal announced FDA acceptance of its Biologics License Application (BLA) for two proposed denosumab biosimilars referencing Amgen’s PROLIA® and XGEVA®. According to Amneal, the FDA has set a target action date in Q4 2025. Denosumab is a RANK ligand (RANKL) inhibitor that is used to treat…
With 10 years of litigation since the first BPCIA complaint on NEUPOGEN (filgrastim) was filed in 2014, trends are becoming apparent that should cause all biopharma companies to reassess how they protect biologics and plan for biosimilar launch. Webinar Highlights: Patents Being Asserted: Learn which types of patents are being…
On March 7, 2025, the District Court for the District of New Jersey entered a Stipulation and Order of Dismissal Without Prejudice in view of a settlement agreement between Amgen and Fresenius Kabi resolving the BPCIA litigation regarding Fresenius’s denosumab biosimilar, FKS518. The Order followed a stipulation by the parties…
On March 5, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia’s entry of a preliminary injunction preventing Celltrion, Inc. (“Celltrion”) from launching CT-P42, its aflibercept biosimilar of EYLEA®. As we have previously reported, the Federal Circuit recently…
On February 28, Amgen, Inc. (“Amgen”) filed three petitions for inter partes review, challenging the validity of all claims in three patents assigned to Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (“BMS”). The claims of all three patents are directed to methods of treating cancer with the combination of two checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapeutic antibodies,…
On Feb. 28, 2025, the FDA approved Celltrion’s denosumab biosimilars, STOBOCLO® (denosumab-bmwo; 60 mg/mL injection) and OSENVELT® (denosumab-bmwo; 70 mg/mL injection), referencing Amgen’s PROLIA® and XGEVA®, respectively. These approvals make Celltrion the third company to receive FDA approval for a denosumab biosimilar, joining Samsung and Sandoz. Denosumab is a RANK…