Why EPO Matters

Dramatic events in the EPO market--roiled by patent fights, biosimilars, and next-generation products--are important not merely to the current EPO players. They affect nearly all large-molecule companies.

Melanie Senior

As these cases go, Amgen Inc. 's patent campaign with Roche over second-generation erythropoietin holds a certain prurient...

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