Friday, October 1, 2021 Daily Archives

US House approves bill to take on biosimilar ‘patent dance’

The bill aims to reduce US drug prices and could limit IP strategies undertaken by reference biologic makers to ward off biosimilar competition. Having been first introduce to the House in April, H R 2884 was approved by the House Judiciary Committee yesterday as part of four bills aimed at tackling the high prices of drugs in the US. According to the text, the bill “limits in certain instances the number of patents that the manufacturer of a biologic drug…