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21 December 2021BiotechnologyAlex Baldwin

AbbVie wants USITC to investigate Alvotech over Humira ‘theft’

AbbVie seeks to block imports of Alvotech’s biosimilar Humira (adalimumab) into the US, claiming that the Icelandic company plundered former employees and used its trade secrets to develop the drug.

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