On 9 February 2023 Richard Gonzalez, AbbVie's chief executive, told analysts to expect "U.S. Humira sales down approximately 37%" that year. Humira had lost its American exclusivity at the end of January, the moment the industry calls a patent cliff, and cheaper copies known as

CSL paid Alentis USD 355m upfront for 45 per cent of global profits on lixudebart, the largest licence payment of the week, and of the 12 royalties and profit shares created in the window two publish a rate, two publish a band and eight publish nothing. Shionogi agreed to pay

On 25 September 2026 the European Commission revoked the marketing authorisation for Aumseqa (aumolertinib), a lung-cancer drug developed by Hansoh Pharmaceutical of China. It had granted that authorisation on 12 February 2026, so the approval lasted 225 days. Hansoh reports no sales revenue outside China. The decision turned on

On 21 October a bankruptcy judge in Delaware is due to hear the sale of BioXcel Therapeutics, the maker of Igalmi. Teva has offered $57.5M in cash. The two lenders paying for the case, Oaktree Capital Management and Qatar Investment Authority, have committed up to $77.25M to it,

JCR has licensed its Hunter syndrome drug outside Japan for the second time in five years. It has now signed twelve out-licences since 2021 and has never published a royalty rate. A rival drug built the same way has one: 9.25 percent, bought by Royalty Pharma.

On 9 January 2026 HealthCare Royalty Partners told a Delaware bankruptcy court that Clearside Biomedical was trying to sell something it did not own. Clearside had filed for Chapter 11 seven weeks earlier with no funded debt and one approved product, the eye drug XIPERE. Its sale papers offered bidders

On 12 August 2025 a security interest was recorded against American patent 9,816,156 in favour of LSI Financing LLC, as administrative agent. The patent belongs to ITM Isotope Technologies Munich. Every claim is to a method: making no-carrier-added lutetium-177 from irradiated ytterbium-176 by cation-

Phathom Pharmaceuticals had paid its royalty investors $28.9 million as of 30 June 2026 under a Revenue Interest Financing Agreement signed on 3 May 2022 with NovaQuest, Sagard and Hercules. The investors receive 10 per cent of net sales of vonoprazan products, stepping down at higher sales, and their

The largest upfront of the week, $1bn from Sanofi to Regeneron, buys into a 50:50 profit share, and of the 12 royalties created in the window one publishes a rate, three publish a band and eight publish nothing. Sanofi paid Regeneron $1bn upfront against up to $7bn in milestones