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Are Manufacturing Patents to Blame for Biosimilar Market Launch Delays?
Rhys Williamson1, Trent Munro2, David Ascher3
1School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia.
Objectives:
Biosimilar market launch delays are likely costing healthcare systems billions of dollars and preventing patients accessing affordable biologic therapies sooner. Many claim these delays are mostly caused by originator biologics' large patent portfolios asserted during litigation against biosimilar developers, particularly that the manufacturing patents filed after the originator is approved is an important driver of these delays. Our objective was to investigate the accuracy of these claims.
Methods:
We reviewed US Court document submissions for litigation data, including the details of patents asserted against biosimilar owners, and collated biosimilar market launch dates from publicly available databases.
Results:
We find that, although approximately half of all patents asserted in litigation were manufacturing patents, a greater proportion of composition, active pharmaceutical ingredient, and treatment patents are associated with longer market launch delays, whereas a greater proportion of manufacturing patents are associated with shorter market launch delays.
Conclusions:
Our results suggest that manufacturing patents were having less of an impact on market launch delays than other types of patents. Our findings have implications for both biosimilar and originator developers, as well as patent policy and its association with healthcare accessibility.
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