The first phase of a major trade agreement just signed by the US and China obliges the latter to implement a system linking pharma patent enforcement to marketing authorization procedures as well as to offer patent-term extensions.
Commitments to implement a patent-linkage system notifying originators of generic filings as well as patent-term extensions to compensate for regulatory and patent review periods are key measures in a section on pharmaceutical intellectual-property protection included in "Phase One" of a trade agreement signed between China and the US on 15 January.
Pharmaceutical data protection is also included in the deal. (Also see "Trade, IP And Oncology Deals: What You Need...
The UK regulator approved 16 medicines containing a new active substance in the first half of this year, while the European Commission issued marketing authorizations for 20 NAS-containing drugs.
Joint clinical assessment reports must be descriptive rather than reach definitive conclusions, and must not interfere with national decision making processes, according to new EU guidance.
An effort to change the US Food and Drug Administration’s conclusion that its obesity treatment candidate retatrutide is a drug and not a biologic could give the product more time with unrestricted pricing in Medicare, among other benefits.
Glenmark Pharmaceuticals agreed to pay $25m in the US to resolve its alleged liability under the False Claims Act linked to price-fixing allegations.
It is unclear in a revised staff manual guide whether Commissioner's National Priority Voucher program approval “recommendations” from the drug and biologic center directors will be advisory or decisional, experts told the Pink Sheet.
Revised recommendation is based on most recent data on circulating strains in US, where KP.3 is now dominant. Novavax sticks with plans targeting the JN.1 ‘parent strain.’
Pink Sheet reporter and editors discuss the US FDA’s changes to the COVID-19 vaccine indication and its revocation of the vaccine emergency use authorizations, as well as new vaccine coverage and reimbursement questions.
