The U.S. Supreme Court will not take up Amarin Corp. plc’s appeal of a September Federal Circuit decision that opened the door for generics of the company’s fish oil-derived cardiovascular drug, Vascepa (icosapent ethyl), to enter the U.S. market.
Aside from its place in the history books as a global pandemic that nearly locked down the world, COVID-19 could have a lasting, more positive legacy of finally opening U.S. biopharmaceutical clinical trials to greater diversity.
Despite a circuit split on the issue, the U.S. Supreme Court Dec. 11 rejected an appeal by Bristol Myers Squibb Co. (BMS) and Sanofi SA over giving states a “second bite at the apple” in whistleblower cases.