AbbVie and Samsung announce global settlement

Samsung announces a royalty-bearing, global settlement with AbbVie enabling Samsung to launch its SB5 biosimilar adalimumab in Europe from 16 October 2018 and in the US from 30 June 2023.  The EU date is the same as AbbVie gave Amgen’s in its September 2018 global settlement, but the US date is 5 months later than Amgen’s licensed date of 31 Jan 2023.  SB5 is registered in EU as Imraldi^® and in AU as Hadlima^®.