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Device Patents in the Orange Book: May 21, 2025, FTC Warning Letters Appear to have Minimal Impact

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Key Takeaways The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has continued its scrutiny of Orange Book listings for device patents, signaling bipartisan concern over potential anti-competitive practices....more

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FTC Holds Its First Listening Session on Practices and Regulations Impacting Pharmaceutical Generic or Biosimilar Competition

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On June 30, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) held the first of three listening sessions focused on ways to lower Americans’ drug prices through competition. The panels are being held as...more

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Two Bills Introduced to Target “Patent Thickets” and “Product Hopping”

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On March 17, 2025, a bipartisan group of senators introduced two bills intended to decrease the cost of prescription drugs. The sponsors include Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.),...more

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Ninth Circuit Affirms District Court’s Rejection Of Private State Law Claims Against Qualcomm

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On February 25, 2025, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the United States District Court for the Northern District of California’s rejection of unlawful tying, exclusive dealing, and unfair competition claims...more

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Jenner & Block Japan Newsletter - January 2025

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Welcome to the January 2025 edition of the Jenner & Block Japan Newsletter, a publication containing updates about legal developments in the United States that may be noteworthy to our clients and other leaders in the...more

White & Case LLP

A Decade of FTC v. Actavis: The Reverse Payment Framework is Older, but Are Courts Wiser in Applying It

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In 2013, the United States Supreme Court significantly changed the landscape of patent settlements in the pharmaceutical industry with its FTC v. Actavis, Inc. decision. In Actavis, the Court held that certain types of...more

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Trump Administration 2.0 – Tech Transactions Update

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The incoming Trump administration is expected to make several policy changes likely to impact tech transactions. President-elect Donald Trump has promised to reduce regulation and cut federal bureaucracy, which he says have...more

WilmerHale

USA: Unpacking the shift – Heightened antitrust scrutiny on Orange Book listings

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Forty years ago, Congress passed the Hatch-Waxman Act, which streamlined the generic drug approval process and revamped how patent infringement claims would be litigated against those prospective generic drug applicants. At...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Senators Get Their Colleagues to Agree on Drug Patent Litigation Legislation

Recent history of Congress's performance as a legislative body has been, to be kind, mixed, and a great many bills, resolutions, and other activities have appeared to be more for show than to accomplish anything worthwhile. ...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Senators Get Their Colleagues to Agree on Drug Patent Litigation Legislation

Recently the Senate passed S.150 entitled the Affordable Prescriptions for Patients Act. Those paying attention might recall that Senator Cornyn (R-TX) introduced this bill (joined by Senator Blumenthal (D-CT) and seven other...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The FTC Challenges Companies’ Allegedly Improper Orange Book Patent Listings

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has called attention in the past year to its perception of the influence that branded pharmaceutical companies have over the price of beneficial drugs. Most recently, the agency has asserted...more

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FTC Challenges More Patent Listings in the FDA’s Orange Book

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been busy scrutinizing patent listings in the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) publication of “Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations,” commonly known as the...more

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FTC continues to highlight FDA Orange Book patent listings

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With the recent filing of an amicus brief in a private pharmaceutical patent infringement case, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has continued its focus on allegedly “improperly listed” patents in the Food and Drug...more

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The Interplay: Key Decisions at the Intersection of Antitrust & Life Sciences - January 2024

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Illumina Agrees to Unwind Acquisition of Grail Following Fifth Circuit Decision.  On December 15, 2023, the Fifth Circuit vacated the FTC’s order that Illumina unwind its acquisition of Grail—a developer of a multi-cancer...more

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FTC Policy Statement on Orange Book Listings Brings More Clarity (Sort Of)

With the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference taking place in San Francisco this week, what better time for an update on the Orange Book? The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), supported by the US Food and Drug Administration...more

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The Federal Trade Commission Put Brand Drug Manufacturers on Notice About Improperly Listing Patents in the Orange Book and Then...

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a policy statement on September 14, 2023, stating that “[b]rand drug manufacturers may be harming generic competition through the improper listing of patents in the Food and Drug...more

Fish & Richardson

FTC Challenges More Than 100 Patents as Improperly Listed in Orange Book

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On November 7, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it is challenging more than 100 patents held by 10 branded drug companies as improperly or inaccurately listed in the Food and Drug Administration’s Orange Book. The...more

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FTC Takes Up the Battle Against Improper Orange Book Patent Listings

Attempting to put some teeth into the policy statement that it issued last month, the FTC sent letters to 10 pharmaceutical companies, asserting that their listing of over 100 patents in FDA's Orange Book for a variety of...more

Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

FTC Throws Down the Gauntlet on Improper Orange Book Listings

The FTC recently issued a policy statement warning drug manufacturers that it “intends to scrutinize improper Orange Book listings” and “use its full legal authority” to “tak[e] actions against companies and individuals that...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

[Webinar] Health Care Antitrust Under President Biden 2.0 - Almost One Year In: What Have We Learned About The Democrats’ Approach...

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In March 2021, our experienced intellectual property, antitrust, and health care litigation lawyers shared some predictions on antitrust policy and enforcement in the health care sector. In “Health Care Antitrust under...more

Hogan Lovells

[Webinar] Antitrust today: Emerging issues affecting the life sciences industry - March 12th, 9:00 am - 10:00 am PST

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Join the Hogan Lovells Antitrust and Competition team on Friday, March 12, 2021 to discuss hot antitrust topics in the life sciences industry, including: - What life sciences companies should expect with respect to...more

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Federal Trade Commission V. Qualcomm Incorporated

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On August 11, 2020, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a decision of Judge Koh sitting in the Northern District of California that certain of Qualcomm’s business practices relating to its standards essential patents...more

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FDA And FTC To Scrutinize Biologics Competition

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On February 3, 2020, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a joint statement announcing their plans to collaborate in promoting competitive biological product markets and...more

Cooley LLP

Alert: Antitrust Trends in 2019: Enforcement Watch List for the Year to Come

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As 2019 kicks off, the Cooley antitrust group highlights 10 recent developments and trends corporate counsel should be aware of – from the US Supreme Court and lower courts, the Department of Justice and Federal Trade...more

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Updated Antitrust Guidelines for IP Licensing Address New Laws, Omit Some Key Areas

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In 1995, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) (collectively, the Agencies) published guidelines that delineated how and when the Agencies would evaluate intellectual property licensing...more

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