Tag: Pay for Delay
Federal Trade Commission Rejected in “Reverse Payment” Suit
Kevin Noonan, Jun 27, 2012
The Federal Trade Commission in recent years has identified a practice it considers to be a threat to consumers regarding...
Eleventh Circuit Rejects the Strength of a Patent as a Criterion...
Jodi Lucena-Pichardo, William Rooney, Jun 27, 2012
The Eleventh Circuit's recent decision in Federal Trade Commission v. Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the "AndroGel" decision) addresses the latest...
Federal Trade Commission Suffers Another Setback in Its Campaign to End...
William Michael, Aidan Synnott, Jun 27, 2012
For over a decade, the Federal Trade Commission has sought, with little success, to end "reverse settlement" payments...
Conversations with Jon Leibowitz and Joaquin Almunia
Joaquin Almunia, David Evans, Jon Leibowitz, May 19, 2011
Competition policy has grown explosively in the last quarter century. There are more than 100 countries with competition...
2025: Reverse-Payment Settlements Unleashed
Dec 16, 2010
The year is 2025. For the past two decades, brand-name drug companies have settled infringement lawsuits with generic firms by paying them...
Patent Settlements and Reverse Payments Under EU Law
Marc van der Waude, Marc van der Waude, Nov 01, 2009
The purpose of this contribution is to explore the status types that settlements and...
Reversing the Trend? The Possibility that Rule Changes May Lead to...
Anne Layne-Farrar, Nov 01, 2009
This article begins by laying out a simple framework that makes obvious the incentives at play in generic drug entry,...
Review of Reverse-Payment Agreements: The Agencies, the Courts, Congress, and the...
Elai Katz, William Rooney, Nov 01, 2009
Two bills seeking to ban reverse-payment agreements are currently pending in Congress, and the European Commission has declared...
