The International Trade Commission began a Section 337 investigation on allegations that ProfoundBio, Genmab and their subsidiaries are importing and selling antibody drugs that infringe patents held by AbbVie Inc., and ImmunoGen, Inc. (ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1466), it said in a notice to be published Dec. 22.
The International Trade Commission seeks comments by Dec. 1 on a Section 337 complaint alleging that imports of antibody drugs infringe patents held by AbbVie Inc., and ImmunoGen, Inc., it said in a notice to be published Nov. 21 in the Federal Register. According to the complaint, AbbVie is seeking a limited exclusion order and cease and desist orders against ProfoundBio, Genmab and their subsidiaries to bar from entry "certain antibody drug conjugates products and components thereof and products containing the same" that violate their patents. AbbVie said that its product ELAHERE, is "a first-in-class ADC approved to treat adult patients with certain ovarian, fallopian tube, and primary peritoneal cancers."
President Donald Trump sent letters to AbbVie, Amgen, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, EMD Serono, Genentech, Gilead, GSK, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer, Regeneron and Sanofi, posting several of them online, telling them they should, within 60 days, set prices for Medicaid at the same level as the cheapest price their drugs are sold in a developed country; contract that when new drugs are launched, Medicaid, Medicare and private insurers all get that global low price; and allow direct-to-consumer sales for high-volume drugs, as long as those sales are at the same price as to insurers.
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The Supreme Court should dismiss a case involving Patent Act Section 112 to “protect innovation” in fields like telecom, software, computing and electronics, tech groups argued this week in Amgen v. Sanofi (21-757).