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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

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Orexo AB, Orexo US Inc., v. Actavis Elizabeth LLC

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Federal Circuit Summary - Before Newman, Hughes, and Stoll. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Delaware Summary: Objective indicia of nonobviousness cannot be dismissed merely because all...more

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UK Supreme Court Decision In Actavis V. Eli Lilly – Doctrine Of Equivalents Recognized

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In its decision of July 12, 2017 in Actavis v. Eli Lilly, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom for the first time formally adopted the concept of a doctrine of equivalents when considering what constituted an infringement...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Nexium Case Extends Actavis Ruling

Addressing a pay-for-delay and pharmaceutical-settlement antitrust jury trial for the first time since the 2012 Supreme Court of the United States decision in FTC v. Actavis (IP Update, Vol. 16, No. 7), the US Court of...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Two reverse-payment appeals to watch

It has been over three years since the Supreme Court’s Actavis decision. Since then, numerous putative class actions alleging harm to competition as a result of “reverse-payment” settlements have flooded the courts. The...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Appellate Court Weighs In on Pharmaceutical “Product Hopping” - People of the State of New York v. Actavis PLC

As the first court of appeals to address the issue of product hopping, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the district court’s grant of a preliminary injunction, finding that product hopping is...more

McGuireWoods LLP

Actavis Loses Nameda® Appeal Over “Hot Documents”

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit’s opinion (issued May 22, 2015 with a public, redacted version available May 28, 2015), affirming the district court’s grant of a preliminary injunction in State of New York v....more

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Actavis Amici Briefs Don’t Support Injunction

The expedited appeal to the Second Circuit pits New York State’s arguments for facilitating competition in a “molecule market” (a product market defined by the active ingredient of a prescription drug) against the brand name...more

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Speed of Pharmaceutical Innovation at Stake in N.Y. Antitrust Lawsuit

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A pharmaceutical firm’s ability to efficiently produce and promote a better treatment for Alzheimer’s disease lies at the center of an antitrust lawsuit pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. In...more

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Stay Denied; Expedited Appeal Granted in Namenda Product Hopping Suit

Following the S.D.N.Y.’s award to the New York State Attorney General of an injunction requiring Actavis to continue distributing the immediate-release tablet version of its dementia drug, Namenda (which we analyzed...more

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Second Circuit To Hear Expedited Appeal in “Product Hopping” Suit

On January 6, 2015, the Second Circuit granted defendants’ motion for an expedited appeal but denied their motion for a stay in New York v. Actavis PLC, 14-4624 (2d Cir. Jan. 6, 2015). Defendants are manufacturers of...more

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