On January 21, a Northern District of California Court denied Plaintiff Tevra Brands LLC’s (“Tevra’s”) Motion for a New Trial, after a Jury found that Defendant Bayer Healthcare LLC (“Bayer”) did not monopolize the relevant...more
I. Introduction -
No pharmaceutical antitrust decision has had more impact than the Supreme Court’s 2013 decision in Federal Trade Commission v. Actavis, a decision which officially defined the term “reverse payment...more
10/11/2023
/ Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) ,
Anti-Competitive ,
Antitrust Litigation ,
AstraZeneca ,
Causation ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
FTC v Actavis ,
Generic Drugs ,
Hatch-Waxman ,
Motion to Dismiss ,
Orange Book ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Popular ,
RanBaxy ,
Reverse Payment Settlement Agreements ,
SCOTUS ,
Settlement
On Friday, August 25, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals For The District Of Columbia Circuit affirmed dismissal of an antitrust action brought by the Federal Trade Commission regarding Endo Pharmaceuticals’s grant of an...more
9/22/2023
/ Antitrust Litigation ,
Appeals ,
Dismissals ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
FTC Act ,
FTC v Actavis ,
Licenses ,
Patent Act ,
Pharmaceutical Patents ,
SCOTUS ,
Sherman Act
A federal district court recently dismissed a lawsuit against AbbVie and biosimilar manufacturers of adalimumab involving a novel antitrust claim against the Humira patent estate. Attorneys with Haug Partners LLP take an...more
7/20/2020
/ AbbVie ,
Amgen ,
Anticompetitive Behavior ,
Antitrust Litigation ,
Antitrust Violations ,
Biosimilars ,
BPCIA ,
Defense Strategies ,
Dismissals ,
Drug Pricing ,
EU ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Foreign Patent Applications ,
Indirect Purchasers ,
Litigation Strategies ,
Noerr-Pennington Doctrine ,
Orange Book ,
Patent Dance ,
Patent Portfolios ,
Patents ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Pharmaceutical Patents ,
Popular ,
Product Exclusivity