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Will AbbVie’s Trade Secrets Suit Against Alvotech Follow Path Of Similar Biotech Battles?

 
• By Brenda Sandburg

AbbVie claims a former employee took Humira manufacturing process know-how to Alvotech. Settlement is likely as Alvotech does not want to delay development of its biosimilar and AbbVie doses not want to disclose its trade secrets in court.

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AbbVie claims Alvotech stole trade secrets for Humira manufacturing • Source: Shutterstock

AbbVie Inc. is the latest biotech giant to claim that a competitor obtained trade secrets stolen by a former employee to help it advance development of a biosimilar. The case is somewhat different as the AbbVie employee was based outside the US, but the outcome may be the same given the incentives for both parties to settle.

AbbVie alleges in a 19 March

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