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Samsung Bioepis’s Biosimilar Enbrel ‘Substitutable’ In Australia As Pfizer Patent Case Is Rebuffed

 
• By Ian Schofield

Samsung Bioepis’s Brenzys has become the second biosimilar product to be reimbursed as substitutable at the pharmacy level in Australia, and a court has scotched Pfizer’s plans to initiate a patent infringement claim over the manufacturing process for the Enbrel/etanercept biosimilar.

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Biosimilar etanercept is the latest biosimilar to be substitutable in Australia

Samsung Bioepis Co. Ltd./Merck Sharp & Dohme Australia’s biosimilar etanercept product, Brenzys, a version of Amgen Inc./Pfizer Inc.’s anti-TNF Enbrel, has been made available under the Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme as a drug that can be substituted at pharmacy level for the originator.

Meanwhile, in another plus for Samsung Bioepis, an Australian court has denied Pfizer’s application for the disclosure of documents on...

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