Cipla, Piramal Launch Sensipar Generics Amid Growing Antitrust Challenges to Amgen/Teva Settlement

Amgen seeks a preliminary injunction to halt US sales by Cipla and says it will take steps to stop Piramal’s sales; in its antitrust lawsuit, Cipla alleges Amgen paid to license Teva products under the companies’ patent settlement, which resulted in Teva pulling its generic off the market shortly after launch.

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Sensipar marketer Amgen Inc. and cinacalcet generic drug sponsors are engaged in a complicated series of launch and litigation moves that are creating uncertainty in the US market for the calcium-sensing receptor agonist and raising new antitrust questions in the process.

A federal judge in Delaware will hear oral argument April 2 on Amgen’s motion for a preliminary injunction to halt Cipla Ltd.'s sale of generic cinacalcet tablets. Cipla commenced...

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