Private Equity Investment in the Generics and CMO Industry

Rubrik: Fachthemen

(Treffer aus pharmind, Nr. 05, Seite 634 (2015))

Ettner N | Eichner W

Private Equity Investment in the Generics and CMO Industry / Ettner and Eichner • Private Equity Investment · Ettner N, Eichner W · ¹Kandern-Wollbach und ²Butzbach
The ongoing saturation of generic drug products in Western countries combined with persistent pressure from the health care systems for cost savings as well as production overcapacity has caused a margin erosion for generic manufacturers and particularly contract manufacturing organizations (CMO). This has led to a flurry of strategic mergers and acquisitions (M&A). These arguably began with the majority acquisition of Léčiva (later Zentiva), the leading Czech pharmaceutical company of Czech-branded generics, by Warburg Pincus in the late 90s [ 1 ]. Their successful initial public offering (IPO) inspired a growing number of PE transactions in the life sciences industry as ...

IP Strategies in the Generics and Pharmaceutical Industries

Rubrik: Fachthemen

(Treffer aus pharmind, Nr. 11, Seite 1714 (2014))

Ettner N | Meyer E

IP Strategies in the Generics and Pharmaceutical Industries / Between branded drug life cycle management and innovative generics (Part 2)*Teil 1 s. Pharm. Ind. 2014;76(10):1548–1553 · Ettner N, Meyer E · ¹Kandern-Wollbach (Germany) und ²Miesbach (Germany)
In 1989, Pfizer´s UK-based research site in Sandwich synthesized sildenafil at first, resulting in British patent application (GB9013750) entitled “Pyrazolopyrimidinone antianginal agents” (filed on June 20, 1990 [ 39 , 40 , 41 ]). A European patent application was subsequently filed on June 7, 1991 (EP0463756). The corresponding US patent application US5,25,0534 is listed in the Orange Book of the FDA. The patent claims a series of pyrazolo[4,3-d]pyrimidin-7-one compounds as potent and selective inhibitors of 5 cyclic guanosine 3´,5´-monophosphate phosphodiesterase (cGMP PDE5). In 1991, British priority application GB9126260 specified sildenafil for the use as heart medicine (see Fig. 3 , number 2); the ...

IP Strategies in the Generics and Pharmaceutical Industries

Rubrik: Fachthemen

(Treffer aus pharmind, Nr. 10, Seite 1548 (2014))

Ettner N | Meyer E

IP Strategies in the Generics and Pharmaceutical Industries / Between branded drug life cycle management and innovative generics (Part 1) · Ettner N, Meyer E · ¹Kandern-Wollbach (Germany) und ²Miesbach (Germany)
Year after year, the volume of worldwide patent filings is constantly growing, exceeding the first time the two million mark in 2011 with 2.14 million patent filings [ 1 ]. In 2012, an estimated 8.66 million patents were in force worldwide [ 2 ]. Patent protection is regarded essential to medical innovation in the research-based pharmaceutical originator industry [ 3 , 4 ]. Due to lengthy clinical development programs and tedious approval proceedings, the residual time period between marketing of the new drug and the patent expiry of a substance of matter patent of a new API is often very ...