Fate Of JHL Biotech's Biosimilars Uncertain As Judge Bars Use Of Genentech Trade Secrets

Court denies JHL motion to dismiss trade secret theft suit, bars development or sale of biosimilars that rely on information from Genentech documents; trial scheduled to begin in November 2020.

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JHL Biotech Inc.'s development of biosimilars to Genentech Inc.'s Rituxan, Herceptin, Avastin, and Pulmozyme may be hampered by a court order barring the company's use of Genentech documents.

US District Judge William Alsup, of the Northern District of California, denied JHL's motion to dismiss Genentech's trade secrets theft...

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