How Risky Is Pfizer’s Launch Of Its Remicade Biosimilar?
Executive Summary
Following Sandoz’s Zarxio playbook, Pfizer plans to market Inflectra while patent litigation continues; February 2017 trial on cell culture media patent could answer question of potential damages.
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