Company: PCRX
Filing Date: 2025-08-05
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001396814-25-000102
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Company: Pacira BioSciences, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-05
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 8
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 amendments, and new claims. Claim 7 was withdrawn from the reexamination due to the finality of the judgment in the eVenus litigation, and claim 1 was canceled. The USPTO agreed with the Company’s position and issued a Notice of Intent to Issue Ex Parte Reexamination Certificate on June 23, 2025, which indicated the allowability of amended claim 8 and new claims 23-110. Claims 2-6 and 9-22 of the ‘495 Patent were not subject to reexamination. The Company expects the Reexamination Certificate to issue in the second half of the year.Securities Class ActionOn January 13, 2025, Leandro Alvarez filed a putative class action on behalf of Company shareholders between August 2, 2023 and August 8, 2024 against the Company and certain of its officers, in the District Court of New Jersey (25-cv-322). The complaint alleges that the Company made materially false and misleading statements and/or concealed material adverse facts concerning EXPAREL patents. The case is in the pleadings stage and the Company is unable to predict the outcome of this litigation at this time.

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Shareholder Derivative ActionOn June 16, 2025, a Shareholder Derivative suit, Young v. Lee, et al, was filed in the District of New Jersey (25-cv-11841). The complaint alleges that certain officers and members of the Company’s board of directors breached their fiduciary duties by making materially false and misleading statements and/or concealed material adverse facts concerning EXPAREL patents. The Company has not yet been served, and the Company is unable to predict the outcome of this litigation at this time.Research Development FoundationPursuant to an agreement with the Research Development Foundation, or RDF, the Company was required to pay RDF a low single-digit royalty on the collection of revenues from certain products for as long as certain patents assigned to the Company under the agreement remain valid. RDF has the right to terminate the agreement for an uncured material breach by the Company, in connection with its bankruptcy or insolvency or if it directly or indirectly opposes or disputes the validity of the assigned patent rights. The Company’s ‘495 patent was issued on June 15, 2021. Thereafter, RDF asserted that the issuance of that patent extends the Company’s royalty