Ouch! Federal Court of Australia imposes $4.5 million-dollar penalty for misleading marketing of pain-relief products
The Federal Court has handed down a significant $4.5 million penalty over misleading claims made with respect to the over-the-counter muscular pain relief products, ‘Voltaren Osteo Gel’ and ‘Voltaren Emulgel’. The decision in Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Australia Pty Ltd (No 2) [2020] FCA 724 makes it clear that the read more...
The most significant advances in medical treatments are being made with biological products. As biological medicines are significantly more expensive than traditional small molecule drugs, upward pressure is being placed on health spending. For example, in the United States, biological medicines accounted for 40% of all prescription drugs spending and 70% of the increase in 
For those readers interested in the issues surrounding competitive moves by pharmaceutical companies in the scenario where a key patent comes to an end, we report on the recent decision of the Full Federal Court in the ACCC v Pfizer matter here: ACCC v Pfizer – KWM News & Insights
Biological medicines (biologics) are agents derived from a biological source. As a consequence, they are complex and there is a high degree of variability between molecules of the same active substance. Biosimilars are medicines that are closely related, pharmaceutically and therapeutically, to their reference biologic. However, biosimilars are not identical to, and cannot be characterised 