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Intellectual Property Law

Fordham Law School

2013

Antitrust

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The Need For Patent-Centric Standard Of Antitrust Review To Evaluate Reverse Payment Settlements, Tania Khatibifar May 2013

The Need For Patent-Centric Standard Of Antitrust Review To Evaluate Reverse Payment Settlements, Tania Khatibifar

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

Reverse payment settlements have ignited a firestorm debate among all affected parties: consumer groups, brand-name pharmaceutical companies, generic manufacturers, pharmaceutical wholesalers and retailers, lawmakers, executive agencies, and the federal courts. The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has waged a decade-long battle against such private settlements of pharmaceutical patent litigation as illegal market-sharing agreements, with skirmishes among the circuits trending in favor of the settling parties until recently. The Third Circuit’s recent decision in In re K-Dur Antitrust Litigation unsettled this trend, and the Supreme Court granted the FTC’s petition for a writ of certiorari in a separate case on the issue …


From Microsoft To Google: Intellectual Property, High Technology, And The Reorientation Of U.S. Competition Policy And Practice, William E. Kovacic Mar 2013

From Microsoft To Google: Intellectual Property, High Technology, And The Reorientation Of U.S. Competition Policy And Practice, William E. Kovacic

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

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