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FTC submits false data to unfair lawsuit'Daewoong Pharmaceutical' fines and withdraws prosecution charges
-Reporter Moon Hong-cheol
The Fair Trade Commission said that Daewoong Pharmaceutical and Daewoong unfairly filed a lawsuit against the infringement of patent rights to impede the sale of generic drugs, imposed a corrective order and a fine of KRW 2.297 billion, and decided to sue the corporation to the prosecution. It was revealed on the 3rd.
The Albis product line developed by Daewoong Pharmaceutical is a gastrointestinal drug and is a combination drug consisting of three pharmacologically active ingredients, bismuth, ranitidine, and sucralfate. It is also called as a peptic anti-ulcer agent, and is used to treat gastritis, gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer, etc.
According to the Fair Trade Commission, when Daewoong Pharmaceutical's original patent for Albis expired (January 2013), competitors also developed generics and entered the market.
As competition intensified, Daewoong Pharmaceutical established a plan to file a patent infringement lawsuit against competitors using the successor patents of Albis and Alvis D to effectively defend the entry into the generic market.
Regardless of whether patent infringement or not, once a patent infringement lawsuit is filed, it is difficult for customers such as hospitals and wholesalers to convert transactions to generics that are likely to discontinue sales in the future.
In fact, Daewoong Pharmaceutical filed a lawsuit against patent infringement in December 2014 in order to hinder the sale of generics even though it recognized that the generics of its rival Pavis Pharmaceuticals did not infringe the Albis formulation patent (double patent).
The FTC pointed out that Daewoong Pharmaceutical clearly recognized that it did not infringe on Lee Jung-jung's patent by directly collecting the parvis products and measuring the film rupture time before filing a complaint.
Nevertheless, Daewoong Pharmaceutical promoted that the product under lawsuit could be discontinued in the future when bidding for large hospitals at the beginning of this year, and enforced a provisional injunction lawsuit to damage the image of Pavis products.
In order to delay the entry of Pavis Pharmaceuticals into the market as much as possible, when loss was expected due to failure to prove infringement during the litigation process, the lawsuit delay strategy was employed by submitting an irrelevant experimental report.
In addition, while the lawsuit was in progress, Daewoong Pharmaceutical also interfered with the sales of Pavis' products by linking the lawsuit with sales, such as actively notifying customers that Pavis products could be discontinued due to a temporary injunction lawsuit.
As a result, it was found that Pavis Pharmaceutical's business contracted or interfered with some pharmaceutical companies that were considering consigning manufacturing to Pavis Pharmaceuticals, changing their customers to Daewoong Pharmaceutical.
In addition, it was revealed that Daewoong Pharmaceutical registered a patent (January 2016) by manipulating and submitting key data such as the number and numerical values of the bioequivalence test data during the Albis D patent application (January 2015).
At that time, Daewoong Pharmaceutical conducted a total of three bioactivity tests (first and second failed, third successful) for Albis D's approval of the item from the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, and was preparing to release the product after obtaining product approval for the third successful experiment.
In this process, Daewoong Pharmaceutical has urgently pushed for a patent application according to the chairman's instructions to apply for a patent before the product is released.
However, it was difficult to obtain the desired patent using only the existing data, as the staff in charge expressed severe pressure due to the lack of biometric test data to support the patent details.
Eventually, as the release date of the product approaches, the date of application was increased from 3 to 5 (1 success data ¡æ 3 cases), and manipulated detailed values (the experiment performed at which particle size, etc.) to file a patent application. It was confirmed that it was enforced.
Afterwards, Daewoong Pharmaceutical filed a patent infringement lawsuit in February 2016 in order to obstruct sales when the generic of Ankuk Pharm was released even though it deceptively obtained a patent through the submission of false data.
Daewoong Pharmaceutical, by linking the lawsuit to the business of customers such as hospitals and wholesalers, hindered the sales of Aanguk Pharm's products during the 21 months of the lawsuit.
An official from the FTC said, ¡°Unfair patent infringement lawsuits by the patent holder not only undermine the fair competition order, but also make it difficult for new business operators to enter the market, thereby hindering consumers' right to choose cheap medicines. He pointed out that filing a disguised lawsuit for the purpose of obstructing business is a typical patent abuse that is actively regulated by foreign competition authorities such as the United States.¡±
¡°This measure is significant in that it is the first case of sanctioning the act of interfering with competitors' transactions through unfair patent litigation.¡± We plan to continuously monitor such illegal activities.¡±