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Humira has been the world’s best-selling medicine since it arrived on the market in 2002. Now, it is finally getting competition with the release of Amgen’s biosimilar drug, Amjevita. Humira’s main patent expired in 2016, but a byzantine patent saga has kept other drugmakers from offering their own version of the monoclonal antibody used to treat conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn’s disease.

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