Company: PCRX
Filing Date: 2025-11-06
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001628280-25-050176
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Company: Pacira BioSciences, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-11-06
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 4
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-party’s ANDA will not be subject to the 30-month stay. Litigation or other proceedings to enforce or defend intellectual property rights are often very complex in nature, may be very expensive and time-consuming, may divert our management’s attention from our core business and may result in unfavorable results that could adversely impact our ability to prevent third parties from competing with our products.

For example, In October 2021, December 2021, April 2023 and May 2024, we received Notice Letters advising that eVenus Pharmaceutical Laboratories, Inc., or eVenus, of Princeton, New Jersey, submitted to the FDA an Abbreviated New Drug Application, or ANDA with a Paragraph IV certification seeking authorization for the manufacturing and marketing of a generic bupivacaine liposome injectable suspension in the U.S. prior to the expiration of certain of our U.S. patents.

Pacira BioSciences, Inc.  |  Q3 2025 Form 10-Q  |  58

Beginning in November 2021, we filed various patent infringement suits against eVenus, its parent company (Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals, Co. Ltd., or Jiangsu Hengrui) and Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC, or Fresenius, (together, the “eVenus ANDA Filers”) in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey asserting infringement of U.S. Patent No. 11,033,495 (the ‘495 patent) (21-cv-19829), U.S. Patent No. 11,179,336 (the ‘336 patent) (22-cv-00718), U.S. Patent No. 11,426,348 (the ‘348 patent) (23-cv-02367), U.S. Patent Nos. 11,819,574 (the ‘574 patent) and 11,819,575 (the ‘575 patent) (24-cv-06294), and U.S. Patent No. 11,925,706 (the ‘706 patent) (24-cv-07680). In December 2024, we filed a patent infringement suit against Fresenius and Jiangsu Hengrui in the Northern District of Illinois (24-cv-12416) asserting that the ANDA products will infringe U.S. Patent No. 12,156,940 (the ‘940 patent). Also in December 2024, the