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No More Deal? Novartis, Amgen Trade Lawsuits Over Aimovig Agreements

 
• By Mandy Jackson

Novartis wants a federal judge to stop Amgen from terminating the companies' agreements around potential migraine blockbuster Aimovig, in which it claims to have invested $870m to date. Amgen wants to go to trial, letting a jury decide whether it can end the partnership – and win damages.

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A quiet disagreement between Amgen Inc. and Novartis AG regarding their partnership for the first-to-market calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) receptor inhibitor Aimovig (erenumab) has erupted into formal legal proceedings. The two companies filed lawsuits against each other on the same day and in the same court – with Novartis seeking to keep the companies' agreements in place and Amgen seeking to terminate the migraine drug collaboration in which Novartis has invested $870m to date.

The disagreement arose last year when Novartis informed Amgen that its sister company, the Austrian contract manufacturing organization (CMO) Sandoz GMBH, entered into an agreement with Alder BioPharmaceuticals Inc. in 2015 to manufacture a competing CGRP inhibitor eptinezumab

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