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How Risky Is Pfizer’s Launch Of Its Remicade Biosimilar?

 
• By Brenda Sandburg

Following Sandoz’s Zarxio playbook, Pfizer plans to market Inflectra while patent litigation continues; February 2017 trial on cell culture media patent could answer question of potential damages.

Celltrion Inc. and partner Pfizer Inc. knocked out one of Janssen Biotech Inc.’s Remicade (infliximab) patents in district court and are betting they will win a ruling of non-infringement of a cell culture media patent. But even if they don’t prevail, they may rake in far more in revenues from an Inflectra biosimilar launch than would pay out in potential damages.

Pfizer announced on Oct. 17 that it would begin shipping Inflectra (infliximab-dyyb), its biosimilar to Janssen’s tumor necrosis factor inhibitor,...

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