Company: ABBV
Filing Date: 2025-11-04
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001551152-25-000049
Chunk: 55

Company: AbbVie Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-11-04
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
Chunk 55
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L No. 2921. Approximately 75 ALCL lawsuits and 470 other lawsuits are pending in various state courts. Approximately 60 ALCL and 1,025 other lawsuits are pending in other countries. Plaintiffs generally seek monetary damages, medical monitoring and attorneys’ fees.In January 2025, a putative class action lawsuit, Sheet Metal Workers’ Health Plan of Southern California, Arizona and Nevada v. AbbVie Inc., was filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on behalf of third-party payors of Humira, alleging that AbbVie’s rebating practices are impairing biosimilar competition with Humira in violation of federal and state antitrust laws. The plaintiff generally seeks monetary damages, injunctive relief and attorneys' fees.Intellectual Property LitigationIn November 2023, AbbVie filed litigation in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware against Hetero USA, Inc., Hetero Labs Limited, Hetero Labs Limited Unit-V, Aurobindo Pharma USA, Inc., Aurobindo Pharma Ltd., Sandoz Inc., Sandoz Private Limited, Sandoz GmbH, Intas Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Accord Healthcare, Inc., and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd. to enforce AbbVie’s patent rights relating to upadacitinib (a drug sold under the trademark Rinvoq). AbbVie alleged defendants’ proposed generic upadacitinib products infringe certain patents and sought declaratory and injunctive relief. In September 2025, AbbVie announced that it settled litigation with all generic manufacturers that filed abbreviated new drug applications with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for generic versions of upadacitinib tablets.AbbVie Inc. is seeking to enforce patent rights related to ubrogepant (a drug sold under the trademark Ubrelvy). Litigation was filed in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey in March 2024 against Aurobindo Pharma U.S.A., Inc., Aurobindo Pharma Limited and Apitoria Pharma Private Limited; Zydus Pharmaceuticals (USA) Inc. and Zydus Lifesciences Limited; MSN Pharmaceuticals Inc., MSN Laboratories Private Limited, and MSN Life Sciences Private Limited; and Hetero USA Inc., Hetero Labs Limited Unit-III, and Hetero Labs Limited. AbbVie alleges defendants’ proposed generic ubrogepant products infringe certain patents and seeks declaratory