Walmart has launched an attack on a host of industry-leading generics firms over historical price-fixing allegations, with the US retail giant seeking treble damages from a Pennsylvania district court.
Walmart has become the latest party to wade into the long-running saga of generic price-fixing in the US, with the retail giant filing a lawsuit in the eastern district of Pennsylvania district court seeking treble damages against a host of manufacturers.
In the near-700-page complaint, Walmart says the generics firms engaged in “a wide-ranging conspiracy to fix, maintain, and/or stabilize the prices, rig bids, and engage in market and customer allocations...
Just days after a court in Canada barred Amgen’s Soliris biosimilar until patent expiry in 2027, a UK High Court has handed a favorable ruling to the California-based firm and Samsung Bioepis, ruling that their products do not infringe a patent shielding the branded treatment for paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria.
Acadia’s Nuplazid for hallucinations and delusions associated with Parkinson’s disease psychosis is looking safe from generic competition – for now – until well into the next decade, following a favorable infringement and validity decision by a US district court.
After being refused an injunction as part of ongoing litigation over a private-label ustekinumab biosimilar being marketed in the US by Sandoz and Samsung Bioepis, Stelara originator Johnson & Johnson is continuing to pursue an appeal. However, newly-unsealed court documents suggest the brand company had demonstrated a likelihood of success - and reveal further details about the case, including the identity of the PBM involved and why the injunction request was denied.
Rejecting Amgen’s challenges on the grounds of anticipation and obviousness, Canada’s Federal Court has issued an injunction against the biosimilars firm until patent expiry in March 2027.
Donald Trump’s executive order on most-favored-nation prescription drug pricing could provide positive opportunities for the off-patent industry, although US generics and biosimilars association the AAM suggested that the administration might do more good by focusing elsewhere.
Commissioner Martin Makary’s repeated characterization of foreign facilities as being subject to lower standards than domestic counterparts may have contributed to Rogers’ decision to retire as head of the recently formed Office of Inspections and Investigations.
An executive order from US president Donald Trump aimed at incentivizing domestic manufacturing of critical medicines has been welcomed by the US Association for Accessible Medicines.
