{"id":952,"date":"2021-04-19T13:54:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T16:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/news\/?p=952"},"modified":"2021-04-19T13:54:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T16:54:30","slug":"astrazeneca-sues-zydus-cadila-to-block-tagrisso-generic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/2021\/04\/19\/astrazeneca-sues-zydus-cadila-to-block-tagrisso-generic\/","title":{"rendered":"AstraZeneca Sues Zydus Cadila to block Tagrisso generic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>AstraZeneca\u00a0(NASDAQ:<a href=\"https:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/symbol\/AZN?source=content_type%3Areact%7Csection%3Amain_content%7Cbutton%3Abody_link%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews\">AZN<\/a>)\u00a0has\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ecf.ded.uscourts.gov\/doc1\/04315187477\" target=\"_blank\">filed suit in a federal court<\/a>\u00a0to block Zydus Pharmaceuticals and Cadila Healthcare from bringing a generic\u00a0of Tagrisso (osimertinib) to market.<\/li><li><\/li><li>AstraZeneca says\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.accessdata.fda.gov\/scripts\/cder\/ob\/patent_info.cfm?Product_No=001&amp;Appl_No=208065&amp;Appl_type=N\" target=\"_blank\">a patent<\/a>\u00a0covering pharmaceutical compositions of osimertinib is in effect until January 2035.<\/li><li>On March 3, Zydus sent a letter to AstraZeneca stating it amended its Tagrisso ANDA and that it believes that U.S. Patent No. 10,183,020 is invalid and unenforceable.<\/li><li><\/li><li>AstraZeneca has filed similar suits against Alembic and MSN Labs.<\/li><li><\/li><li>Tagrisso, which is used to treat non-small cell lung cancer, had sales of ~$4.3B last year.<\/li><li><\/li><li>The case is AstraZeneca v. Zydus Pharmaceuticals and Cadila Healthcare, 1:21-cv-00550-UNA<\/li><li><\/li><li>AstraZeneca shares are\u00a0up 1.8%\u00a0to $51.66.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/news\/3683043-astrazeneca-sues-zydus-cadila-to-block-tagrisso-generic\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/news\/3683043-astrazeneca-sues-zydus-cadila-to-block-tagrisso-generic\">https:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/news\/3683043-astrazeneca-sues-zydus-cadila-to-block-tagrisso-generic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AstraZeneca\u00a0(NASDAQ:AZN)\u00a0has\u00a0filed suit in a federal court\u00a0to block Zydus Pharmaceuticals and Cadila Healthcare from bringing a generic\u00a0of Tagrisso (osimertinib) to market. AstraZeneca says\u00a0a patent\u00a0covering pharmaceutical compositions of osimertinib is in effect until January 2035. On March 3, Zydus sent a letter to AstraZeneca stating it amended its Tagrisso ANDA and that it believes that U.S. Patent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-daily-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":954,"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions\/954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}