SANDOZ INC. v. AMGEN INC.

Nos. 15-1039, 15-1195.

137 S.Ct. 1664 (2017)

582 U.S. 1

SANDOZ INC., Petitioner, v. AMGEN INC., et al. Amgen Inc., et al., Petitioners, v. Sandoz Inc.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 12, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deanne E. Maynard , Washington, DC, for Petitioner in No. 15-1039.

Seth P. Waxman , Washington, DC, for Petitioners in No. 15-1195.

Anthony A. Yang , for the United States as amicus curiae, by special leave of the Court, supporting the Petitioner.

Rachel Krevans , Morrison & Foerster LLP, San Francisco, CA, Julie Y. Park , Morrison & Foerster LLP, San Diego, CA, Deanne E. Maynard , Joseph R. Palmore , Marc A. Hearron , Bryan J. Leitch , Lena Hughes , Morrison & Foerster LLP, Washington, DC, for Petitioner in No. 15-1039.

Jonathan P. Graham , Stuart L. Watt , Wendy A. Whiteford , Lois M. Kwasigroch , Kimberlin L. Morley , Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, Seth P. Waxman , Thomas G. Saunders , Daniel Winik , Wilmer Cutler , Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, DC, Nicholas Groombridge , Eric Alan Stone , Jennifer H. Wu , Arielle K. Linsey , Stephen A. Maniscalco , Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY, Janine M. Lopez , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Boston, MA, for Cross-Petitioners.

Wendy A. Whiteford , Lois M. Kwasigroch , Kimberlin L. Morley , Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, Vernon M. Winters , Alexander D. Baxter , Sidley Austin LLP, San Francisco, CA, Nicholas Groombridge , Eric Alan Stone , Jennifer H. Wu , Jennifer Gordon , Peter Sandel , Arielle K. Linsey , Ana J. Friedman , Stephen A. Maniscalco , Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY, for Cross-Petitioners.


These cases involve 42 U.S.C. § 262(l), which was enacted as part of the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2009 (BPCIA), 124 Stat. 808. The BPCIA governs a type of drug called a biosimilar, which is a biologic product that is highly similar to a biologic product that...

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