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Sandoz Launches Pyzchiva as Manufacturer Samsung Is Sued by J&J

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    While the “Big Three” PBMs’ private-label subsidiaries have drawn recent attention for their agreements with pharma companies to offer their own branded biosimilars, one of these planned arrangements has landed a manufacturer in hot water.

    Johnson & Johnson and its Janssen Biotech, Inc. subsidiary — now known as Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine — on Feb. 24 filed a lawsuit (Case 2:25-cv-01439) against Samsung Bioepis Co. Ltd. over its attempts to sell a private-label biosimilar of J&J’s interleukin-12/IL-23 antagonist Stelara (ustekinumab) via an unidentified PBM private-label subsidiary in addition to Samsung’s Pyzchiva (ustekinumab-ttwe) biosimilar.

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    • Angela Maas

    Angela has an extensive background of editing, reporting and writing for trade and consumer publications. She has written Radar on Specialty Pharmacy since she joined AIS Health in 2005 and has broad knowledge of the various issues at play within the space. She also has written for Spotlight on Market Access since its 2017 launch. Before joining AIS Health, she was managing editor at Employee Benefit News and Employee Benefit News Canada and managing editor at Hem Aware (a hemophilia publication), Lupus Living and Momentum (a multiple sclerosis publication). She has a B.A. in English and an M.A. in British literature from Arizona State University.

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