Russia's Biocad to file lawsuit against Roche in US court

14 June 2016

Leading Russian biotech firm Biocad has filed a petition to the New York Federal Court against Swiss pharma giant Roche (ROG: SIX), accusing the company of setting monopoly-low prices for its products in Russia, with the aim ofruining business of local competitors, reports The Pharma Letter’s local correspondent.

According to Biocad, Roche currently uses the practice of artificial reduction of prices for its anti-cancer drugs Avastin (bevacizumab), Herceptin (trastuzumab) and Rituxan/MabThera (rituximab), which make biosimilars of these drugs produced by Biocad uncompetitive.

A spokesman of Biocad said that the current actions of Roche also prevent the expansion of Biocad with these drugs in the foreign markets, and in particular the USA. In the US case, according to Biocad, Roche’s exclusive rights on all the three drugs expire in 2018-2019.

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