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Drug Pricing: FDA Considerations Under Recent Executive Orders and Congressional Bills

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President Trump’s executive orders and legislative proposals from Congress leverage FDA to help lower drug prices, address anti-competitive practices, and accelerate generic drug approvals....more

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Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy: A Focus on Patent and Drug Law to Reduce Health Care Spending

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Each year, Americans spend more than $1,500 per person on prescription drugs. Critics calling for measures to lower prescription drug costs often cast blame on alleged abuses of patent and competition laws. To address these...more

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FDA Releases Draft Guidance on Promotion of Biological Reference and Biosimilar Products

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Part of a New Joint Initiative with FTC to Deter Anti-Competitive Practices, Including False or Misleading Comparisons - On February 3, 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) released draft guidance providing...more

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Roche Fined $14M for Undermining Biosimilar and Generic Competition in Romania

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On January 15, 2020, the Romanian Competition Council fined fined Roche Romania SRL €12.9 million ($14.2 million) following two investigations into what the Competition Counsel found to be Roche’s anti-competitive practices...more

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Unprecedented State Law on Pharmaceutical “Reverse Payments” Goes Into Effect

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A new California law, Preserving Access to Affordable Drugs, AB-824 (the Act), which is aimed at curbing reverse-payment patent settlements, took effect on January 1. The Act codifies a presumption that any transfer of value...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

More Affordable and Innovative Medicines and Treatments in Europe – Has the Competition Enforcement Met the 2009 Objective?

A decade ago, the European Commission conducted a thorough sectoral inquiry into the European pharmaceutical sector that identified antitrust shortcomings impeding access to more affordable and innovative medicines and...more

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FTC backs FDA guidance intended to curtail citizen petition “shenanigans”

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On Tuesday, December 4, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it had submitted a comment regarding the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) revised draft guidance on citizen petitions. ...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

FDA’s New Biosimilar Action Plan Represents the Next Step for Improving Drug Competition

On July 18, 2018, after months of alluding to the various aspects of an upcoming “Biosimilar Action Plan” as another prong within FDA’s broader Drug Competition Action Plan (DCAP), FDA finally unveiled its plan for...more

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FTC Urges FDA to Rethink Its Biosimilar Naming Proposal; Other Stakeholders Agree

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week disputed the effectiveness and competitive impact of the Food and Drug Administration’s recently proposed biosimilar naming policy and argued that using different nonproprietary...more

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