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House Subcommittee Holds Hearing on Follow-on Biologics

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Donald Zuhn -- This afternoon, the House Subcommittee on the Courts and Competition Policy held a hearing on follow-on biologics entitled "Biologics and Biosimilars: Balancing Incentives for Innovation." Among the witnesses appearing before the Subcommittee were Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA), who introduced follow-on biologics legislation (H.R. 1548) in the House that would provide up to 14.5 years of data exclusivity; Alex Brill, a Research Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), who authored a white paper last November asserting that a follow-on biologics regulatory pathway providing a data exclusivity period of seven years would be "sufficient for maintaining strong...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on July 15, 2009 (boomark / email).