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This will mark the end of 20 years of market exclusivity during which AbbVie has earned nearly $200 billion from global sales of the drug.
Eight more biosimilars are expected to become available in 2023, putting AbbVie under pressure. Anticipating the competition, the company has spent the last few years trying to reduce its reliance on Humira, which, as recently as 2019, accounted for more than half of its revenue.
While pharmaceutical companies periodically face these “patent cliffs,” none has been steeper than the one AbbVie faces with Humira. Until now, the most lucrative product to become generic was Lipitor, Pfizer’s cholesterol-lowering drug, which at its peak sold around $13 billion annually. In 2021, Humira sales totaled $20.7 billion.