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Timing Is Everything – Unfortunately For Acorda, Timing Couldn't Be Worse

 
• By Mandy Jackson

Acorda can't seem to catch a break. The Federal Circuit slapped down the company's last ditch effort to uphold its Ampyra patents and three days later the FDA postponed a decision on Inbrija, widening the gap between the entry of Ampyra generics and the launch of Acorda's new drug.

Business decline

A recent negative decision from the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on patents for its main source of revenue Ampyra (dalfampridine) wasn't unexpected, but the US FDA's move to postpone a decision on Acorda Therapeutics Inc.'s next source of revenue – Inbrija (levodopa inhalation powder) for the treatment of “off” periods in Parkinson's disease – was a hit the company didn't need.

Acorda said on Sept. 13 that the user fee date for Inbrija has been moved from Oct. 5 to Jan. 5 based on the company's recent submission of information the...

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