On Tuesday, November 2, 2021, the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia seeking to block an acquisition by Penguin Random House,...more
In a reversal that came as no surprise to many observers, on Tuesday, August 11, 2020, a unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed the decision by the U.S. District Court for the Northern...more
8/18/2020
/ Anticompetitive Behavior ,
Antitrust Violations ,
Appeals ,
Cell Phones ,
Competition ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
FRAND ,
FTC Act ,
IP License ,
Monopolization ,
OEM ,
Patent Royalties ,
Qualcomm ,
Remand ,
Reversal ,
Sherman Act ,
Standard Essential Patents
In a recent decision in In Re Humira (Adalimumab) Antitrust Litigation, No. 19-cv-1873, Judge Shah of the Northern District of Illinois dismissed a consolidated class action complaint filed by U.S. purchasers of AbbVie Inc.’s...more
6/22/2020
/ Anti-Competitive ,
Antitrust Injuries ,
Antitrust Litigation ,
Biopharmaceutical ,
Biosimilars ,
BPCIA ,
Class Action ,
Monopolization ,
Noerr-Pennington Doctrine ,
Patent Dance ,
Pay-For-Delay ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Sherman Act ,
USPTO