AbbVie, InterMune Sue to Block Clinical-Trial Data Release
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AbbVie Inc., the drugmaker that was split off from Abbott Laboratories at the start of this year, and biotechnology company InterMune Inc. sued the European Union’s pharmaceuticals regulator in a bid to block publication of clinical-trial data.
AbbVie filed two lawsuits against the European Medicines Agency at the European Union General Court in Luxembourg “seeking to protect AbbVie’s confidential and commercially sensitive information,” the company said in an e-mailed statement today. InterMune said it’s challenging a separate EMA decision to let a competitor see information concerning its Esbriet lung remedy.