January 05, 2024
A Ninth Circuit panel on Friday denied drugmaker Valeant Pharmaceuticals' request to review its decision to revive a False Claims Act suit accusing Valeant of fraudulently obtaining a patent to extend its monopoly on the drug Apriso.
September 19, 2023
The drugmaker behind a major bowel disease treatment said that a Ninth Circuit panel split with "at least eleven" other appeals courts when it ruled that putting together disclosures from patent proceedings could underpin a patent lawyer's use of whistleblower laws to go after the pharmaceutical company over claims of fraud.
August 03, 2023
The Ninth Circuit on Thursday revived a False Claims Act suit accusing Valeant Pharmaceuticals of fraudulently obtaining a patent to prolong its monopoly on its drug Apriso, finding the statute's public disclosure bar doesn't block the suit since disclosures from patent proceedings and prior news coverage don't say Valeant committed fraud.
June 10, 2022
A Ninth Circuit judge considering whistleblower allegations that Bausch Health fraudulently obtained a patent to prolong its monopoly on colitis drug Apriso pressed the plaintiff's attorney Friday on whether other valid patents also protected the drug, commenting, "If that's the case, then you don't have a False Claims Act claim."