Law360, Los Angeles (April 4, 2017, 7:05 PM EDT) – Biogen Inc. is facing an antitrust suit in California federal court filed Tuesday by Ixchel Pharma LLC alleging it attempted to hold a monopoly on drug treatments containing dimethyl fumarate, preventing Ixchel from creating a drug for a degenerative neurological disease.
The complaint claims Biogen specifically stopped a partnership between Ixchel and a competitor to develop a new treatment for Friedreich’s ataxia, a debilitating neuro-degenerative disorder. The condition doesn’t have an FDA-approved treatment, the complaint says, but Ixchel since 2012 has been working to develop one…