Belgium has introduced financial incentives to encourage doctors to prescribe anti-TNF biosimilars adalimumab and etanercept outside of hospitals.

Almost 20 new generic groups – including rivals to Flecaine, Inegy, Remodulin and Revlimid – have been added to France’s répertoire of generic equivalents following the latest update by local medicines agency ANSM.

An obstacle in Celltrion’s path to sell its rituximab biosimilar in Korea has been removed, with a court’s affirmation that a patent covering Genentech/Biogen’s Rituxan original for the use of chronic lymphocytic leukemia is invalid.

Sued by Herceptin sponsor Genentech for patent infringement, Samsung Bioepis has legal hurdles to navigate before it can roll out its trastuzumab biosimilar in the US, which has just become the third biosimilar of the cancer treatment greenlit by the FDA.

In line with its strategy to establish its presence in the US branded market, Aurobindo has through its subsidiary Acrotech Biopharma acquired seven marketed oncology injectables from Spectrum Pharmaceuticals in a deal worth up to US$300 million.

An obstacle in Celltrion’s path to sell its rituximab biosimilar in Korea has been removed, with a court’s affirmation that a patent covering Genentech/Biogen’s Rituxan original for the use of chronic lymphocytic leukemia is invalid.

Sued by Herceptin sponsor Genentech for patent infringement, Samsung Bioepis has legal hurdles to navigate before it can roll out its trastuzumab biosimilar in the US, which has just become the third biosimilar of the cancer treatment greenlit by the FDA.

In line with its strategy to establish its presence in the US branded market, Aurobindo has through its subsidiary Acrotech Biopharma acquired seven marketed oncology injectables from Spectrum Pharmaceuticals in a deal worth up to US$300 million.

An obstacle in Celltrion’s path to sell its rituximab biosimilar in Korea has been removed, with a court’s affirmation that a patent covering Genentech/Biogen’s Rituxan original for the use of chronic lymphocytic leukemia is invalid.

Sued by Herceptin sponsor Genentech for patent infringement, Samsung Bioepis has legal hurdles to navigate before it can roll out its trastuzumab biosimilar in the US, which has just become the third biosimilar of the cancer treatment greenlit by the FDA.

In line with its strategy to establish its presence in the US branded market, Aurobindo has through its subsidiary Acrotech Biopharma acquired seven marketed oncology injectables from Spectrum Pharmaceuticals in a deal worth up to US$300 million.