Evo­lus cel­e­brates green­light for Botox ri­val while Al­ler­gan coun­ter­at­tacks with a com­plaint of stolen trade se­crets

De­spite a months-long de­lay, Evo­lus has over­come man­u­fac­tur­ing faults FDA pre­vi­ous­ly found and man­aged to se­cure a nod to be­gin mar­ket­ing its Botox ri­val. And you can count on Al­ler­gan to mount a le­gal coun­ter­at­tack to block the US en­try of a bi­o­log­ic that can threat­en its $3.5 bil­lion fran­chise.

The ap­proval came just af­ter mar­ket close on Fri­day for Jeu­veau, a 900 kDa pu­ri­fied bot­u­linum tox­in type A for­mu­la­tion that re­duces frown lines — or “glabel­lar lines as­so­ci­at­ed with cor­ru­ga­tor and/or pro­cerus mus­cle ac­tiv­i­ty in adults” if you pre­fer the aca­d­e­m­ic term.

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