The Seventh Circuit issued this week a long-awaited opinion in the HUMIRA antitrust litigation, UFCW Local 1500 Welfare Fund v. AbbVie Inc., Case No. 20-2402. The appeal is from the Northern District of Illinois’s...more
In the ongoing battles over the antitrust treatment of pharmaceutical patent settlements, the Federal Trade Commission and private industry have not agreed on much. But a recent FTC amicus brief appears to signal a high level...more
Background – the HSR Act:
Under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (the HSR Act), acquisitions of voting securities, assets and other commercial interests which exceed certain monetary thresholds...more