  We consider the focusing inhomogeneous biharmonic nonlinear Schr\"odinger
equation in $H^2(\mathbb{R}^N)$, \begin{equation} iu_t + \Delta^2 u -
|x|^{-b}|u|^{\alpha}u=0 \end{equation} when $b > 0$ and $N \geq 5$. We first
obtain a small data global result in $H^2$, which, in the five-dimensional
case, improves a previous result from Pastor and the second author. In the
sequel, we show the main result, scattering below the mass-energy threshold in
the intercritical case, that is, $\frac{8-2b}{N} < \alpha <\frac{8-2b}{N-4}$,
without assuming radiality of the initial data. The proof combines the decay of
the nonlinearity with Virial-Morawetz-type estimates to avoid the radial
assumption, allowing for a much simpler proof than the Kenig-Merle roadmap.
