On January 16, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Bureau of Competition published four reports on pharmaceutical patent settlement agreements filed under the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization...more
The Biden administration’s antitrust scrutiny of the life sciences industry continued this week as the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed an administrative complaint against the nation’s largest pharmacy benefit managers...more
Wilson Sonsini’s inaugural Biotech Summit will address topics of critical importance to Biotech and Biopharmaceutical companies, including early and late-stage venture financing, partnering strategies, current and future AI...more
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On June 30, 2023, a jury in the Northern District of California found Gilead and Teva not liable in a trial accusing the companies of engaging in an illegal reverse payment to delay generic versions of two HIV drugs, Truvada...more
7/6/2023
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On April 13, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued an opinion in Impax Laboratories, Inc v. Federal Trade Commission, affirming the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) unanimous decision that Endo...more