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History Repeating: Will US Stelara Settlements Follow Humira’s Lead?

Adalimumab Example Could Provide A Playbook For Settlements Over Ustekinumab Biosimilars

 
• By Dave Wallace

Years before Humira rivals hit the US market in 2023, a series of litigation settlements between biosimilar adalimumab developers and originator AbbVie provided a roadmap for a succession of date-certain launches this year. Now, similar settlements over Stelara between J&J and ustekinumab developers are starting to fall into place for 2025.

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Will Stelara settlements offer a rerun of the Humira deals? • Source: Shutterstock

Until recently, biosimilars industry analysts had predicted that Johnson & Johnson’s immunology blockbuster Stelara (ustekinumab) could face US competition before the end of 2023, with the September expiry of a key patent protecting the top-selling brand.

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