Updated guidance on the UK’s new licensing pathway for biosimilars – which will typically not require comparative efficacy data – has been published by the MHRA after a stakeholder consultation. It has been warmly welcomed by the off-patent industry both locally and internationally.

Perrigo says its deal to divest its Rx business remains “on track,” with the company shunting the prescription unit into “discontinued operations” in the first quarter as it trains its focus on the firm’s future growth engine of consumer self-care.

The Medicines Patent Pool says it is ready to step in to assist with voluntary licensing and technology transfer around COVID-19 vaccines, following US support for an IP waiver.

Etoricoxib led the steepest price rises for UK generics in April, with the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug seeing average prices almost double.

Updated guidance on the UK’s new licensing pathway for biosimilars – which will typically not require comparative efficacy data – has been published by the MHRA after a stakeholder consultation, receiving a warm welcome from the off-patent industry both locally and internationally.

Alvotech has launched a US legal challenge over intellectual property around AbbVie’s Humira, claiming that the company enjoys a “wrongful monopoly” on the top-selling arthritis treatment for which the biosimilars company is developing a high-concentration adalimumab rival.