WASHINGTON, March 27 (Reuters) - Amgen Inc (AMGN.O) sought to convince the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to revive patents on its cholesterol-lowering drug Repatha, while rival Sanofi SA (SASY.PA) urged the justices not to stifle competition for therapies to address a common health risk.
March 27 (Reuters) - Amgen Inc's (AMGN.O) battle with Sanofi (SASY.PA) and Regeneron (REGN.O) at the U.S. Supreme Court over its cholesterol drug Repatha on Monday has some drugmakers hoping a ruling will reshape U.S. patent law and competition among companies that make antibody medicines.
As Sanofi and Regeneron press their patent “enablement” agenda at the U.S. Supreme Court, hoping to keep protections on Amgen’s cholesterol med Repatha on ice, Amgen has accused its rivals of living in a legal fantasy world.
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., March 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN) today announced new Repatha® (evolocumab) combined data from the Phase 3 FOURIER and FOURIER Open Label Extension (OLE) studies and the Phase 2 OCEAN(a)-DOSE study of investigational olpasiran, an siRNA that reduces lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] by more than 90%. Additional data from Amgen's Center for Observational Research and Amgen funded investigator studies, including YELLOW-III from Mount Sinai will be presented at the American College of Cardiology's 72nd Annual Scientific Session together with World Heart Federation's World Congress of Cardiology (ACC.23/WCC) in New Orleans, LA, March 4-6, 2023.
In February, Philip Tagari will take a few days of retirement and then immediately return to industry. He won’t be leading the therapeutics discovery unit for a large biopharma, though.
Petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider a patent loss rarely pans out for drugmakers, but, in the case of Amgen and its cholesterol med Repatha, the company’s high court Hail Mary has been answered.
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Amgen (NASDAQ:AMGN) today presented new compelling data from the Phase 3 FOURIER open label extension (OLE) studies of Repatha® (evolocumab) in adults with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) during the Aug. 29 late-breaking Hot Line Session of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Annual Meeting being held in Barcelona, Spain, and online. These data were simultaneously published in Circulation. Repatha is the first and only proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 inhibitor (PCSK9i) to date to show long-term clinical outcomes in patients with ASCVD for up to 8.4 years.1
It took 5 years for Amgen to move its PCSK9 cholesterol drug Repatha into the blockbuster column, all while waging an unending legal war over the patents related to Sanofi and Regeneron’s rival. But the Big Pharma player is still actively promoting every new cut of the data in its quest to eventually realize the big sales revenue it always felt would flow from the franchise.
The U.S. Supreme Court is breaking out the big guns to help make sense of Amgen and Sanofi's long-running PCSK9 patent feud.
On Monday, SCOTUS invited the solicitor general to file a brief expressing the views of the US on the patent case involving Amgen’s cholesterol drug Repatha as the court considers whether to hear the appeal of a ruling that invalidated Amgen’s patents for the drug.