UCB SA, on behalf of its affiliate UCB Pharma S.A. (UCB), and PDL BioPharma, Inc. (PDL) today jointly announced that the companies have entered into a definitive settlement agreement that resolves all legal disputes between them, including those relating to UCB's pegylated humanized antibody fragment, Cimzia (certolizumab pegol), and PDL's patents known as the Queen et al. patents.
Under the settlement agreement, PDL provided UCB a covenant not to sue UCB for any royalties regarding UCB's Cimzia product under the Queen patent portfolio in return for a lump sum payment of US$10 million and the mutual resolution of other disputes between the two companies, including two pending patent interferences before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and a patent opposition in the European Patent Office. No additional payments will be owed by UCB to PDL under the Queen patents in respect of Cimzia sales for any indication and the sale of a product in development that may or may not be approved within the term of the Queen patents.