Hogan Lovells | USA | 18 May 2022
On Tuesday, May 17, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a decision granting the Pharmaceutical Research and…
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP | USA | 29 Jan 2020
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) into law. The USMCA contains a number of key and…
Mintz | USA | 2 Nov 2018
With the opioid bill passed, the House on recess and the Senate having cut a deal to get out the door, we all begin to wonder: after the dust settles…
Bristows | European Union, USA | 29 Oct 2018
In the USA, a rare or orphan disease is defined as affecting fewer than 200,000 people and more than 7,000 rare diseases have been identified to date…
Hogan Lovells | USA | 23 Oct 2018
On October 15, CMS released a proposed rule titled “Medicare and Medicaid Programs: Drug Pricing Transparency,” which would require direct-to-consumer…
Arent Fox LLP | USA | 5 Sep 2018
On August 28, 2018, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California (the Court) dismissed with leave to amend the…
Cooley LLP | USA | 31 Aug 2018
This week a California judge dismissed a lawsuit filed in December 2017 by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)…
Banner Witcoff | USA | 30 Aug 2018
In May, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit applied an on-sale bar under the America Invents Act (AIA) to Helsinn's U.S…
Mintz | USA | 12 Mar 2018
This week, Congress returns to Washington with 11 days to finalize a government spending bill. House appropriators will be meeting throughout the week…
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani | USA | 25 Jan 2018
In the absence of new federal policies to tame high price drugs, Massachusetts’ state Medicaid program is fighting for the power to negotiate…