API and IP Newsletter
Contents Analysis of DMF filings in July 2021. General information. Pyxis IPO leads the way as four life science firms kick off 4Q, raising nearly $500M. API price hike hits pharma units. Intellectual Property. Vortioxetine decision by Delaware court in USA. Analysis of DMF filings in July 2021 We analyse DMF filings by Indian companies. This month we had looked at DMFs filed in the month of July 2021 and as expected more than 50% of total DMFs filed in July were by Indian companies. Due to space constraint, we cannot cover all DMFs filed in the month, nevertheless, some of the observations are as below. Holder Subject Sidvim Comments MSN LIFE SCIENCES PRIVATE LTD IRBESARTAN USP Out of 28 DMFs filed, 8 are inactive! Must be due to nitrosamine issues. MSN filed DMF in 2021, this is about 9 years after Divis filed DMF in 2012. METROCHEM API PRIVATE LTD LOXOPROFEN SODIUM HYDRATE Old drug. No OB listed patents. Overall requirement would be less than couple of MT/a BIOPHORE INDIA