Alvotech Attacks AbbVie Over Adalimumab

Launches US Legal Challenge Over Humira Patent ‘Monopoly’

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.

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Alvotech has cited the “minefield of IP” around Humira • Source: Alamy

Alvotech has launched a legal challenge to what it says is AbbVie’s “wrongful monopoly” on its Humira (adalimumab) biologic brand in the US, citing a “minefield of intellectual property” of “questionable validity” that surrounds the top-selling arthritis treatment.

The attack on Humira’s “improperly inflated patent portfolio” comes as Alvotech is pursuing US approval for its AVT02 adalimumab biosimilar...

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