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
For nearly a decade, the Supreme Court’s FTC v. Actavis decision has guided pharmaceutical litigators and advisors exploring the antitrust risks inherent in settling pharmaceutical patent lawsuits, especially when such...more
3/3/2022
/ Anti-Competitive ,
Biosimilars ,
Dormant Commerce Clause ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
FTC v Actavis ,
Hatch-Waxman ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patents ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Pharmaceutical Patents ,
Reverse Payment Settlement Agreements
On August 13, 2021, in a decision that largely flew under antitrust and patent practitioners’ radars, U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh mostly denied a motion to dismiss in the alleged “reverse payment” case, In Re Xyrem...more
On September 10, 2021, Janet Woodcock, Acting Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), sent a letter to Andrew Hirshfeld, Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), which raised several of...more
10/12/2021
/ AbbVie ,
Biden Administration ,
Competition ,
Executive Orders ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Generic Drugs ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patents ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Pharmaceutical Patents ,
USPTO
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