Ab­b­Vie ac­cus­es ri­val of steal­ing block­buster ‘trade se­crets’ as clock ticks down on biosim­i­lar as­sault

Two years be­fore the first biosim­i­lars to megablock­buster Hu­mi­ra are ex­pect­ed to hit the US mar­ket, Ab­b­Vie is tak­ing one de­vel­op­er to court over al­le­ga­tions it stole trade se­crets to cre­ate its copy­cat ver­sion.

Ab­b­Vie has filed suit against Ice­landic biotech Alvotech for “in­junc­tive re­lief and re­cov­ery of dam­ages,” ac­cord­ing to court doc­u­ments dat­ed Fri­day. The phar­ma ac­cus­es Alvotech of em­bark­ing on an “un­law­ful plot to sur­rep­ti­tious­ly take Ab­b­Vie’s con­fi­den­tial and pro­pri­etary trade se­crets.”

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