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Health Care Week in Review: Texas Judge Blocked FTC Rule Banning Noncompetes; Biden Administration Announced $1.4 Billion for HIV...

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Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in health care regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies,...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

[Event] Biotech Summit 2024 - October 9th - 10th, Boston, MA

Wilson Sonsini’s inaugural Biotech Summit will address topics of critical importance to Biotech and Biopharmaceutical companies, including early and late-stage venture financing, partnering strategies, current and future AI...more

White & Case LLP

Three Drug Pricing Litigation Issues to Watch in the Second Half of 2024

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It has been a busy year for issues related to drug pricing, and with the election around the corner, litigation issues that have been developing over the last few years are likely to be a key focus for the second half of...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

Fenwick & West LLP

New Jersey Federal Court Weighs in on Orange Book Patent Listings

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In recent months, the issue of whether certain patents are appropriately listed in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Orange Book, associated with the Hatch-Waxman Act, has garnered the attention of the Federal Trade...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Holland & Knight Health Dose: June 11, 2024

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Holland & Knight Health Dose is an in-depth weekly dose of legislative and regulatory insights to keep stakeholders abreast of happenings in Washington, D.C., impacting the health sector. This week's topics include:...more

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

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This week, the FTC continued its intense regulatory focus on pharmaceutical patents listed in the FDA’s Orange Book. As reported in earlier editions of The Interplay, the FTC issued a policy statement in September 2023,...more

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FTC disputes new slate of Orange Book patents for weight loss, diabetes, asthma, and COPD drugs

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On April 30, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it sent a new set of warning letters to ten pharmaceutical companies. The letters inform the companies that the FTC has notified the Food and Drug...more

Alston & Bird

Health Care Week in Review: CMS Finalizes Rules on Nursing Home Staffing Standards and Medicaid Access and Quality; FTC Bans Most...

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Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in health care regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies,...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

The Regulatory Race Is On: The Biden Administration Sprints to Issue Key Health Policies

The upcoming election, and the approaching end of the President’s four-year term, introduce additional dynamics into the agencies’ rulemaking process and even the guidance process. From now through the November election, the...more

Hogan Lovells

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

Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

FDA After Chevron

Under the Supreme Court's Chevron doctrine, courts will defer to a federal agency's interpretation of an ambiguous statute unless that interpretation is unreasonable. Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council,...more

Knobbe Martens

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

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Healthcare Authority Newsletter - November 2023 #3

News Briefs - Senate Committee Advances Bill on 'Ghost Providers,' PBMs - In a unanimous 26-0 vote, the Senate Finance Committee passed a comprehensive draft package that puts pharmacy benefit manager reform and mental health...more

Fenwick & West LLP

FTC Employs New Tactic in Effort Against Drug Makers Alleged to Have Improperly Listed Patents in the FDA’s Orange Book

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On Nov. 7, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced it is disputing the listing of more than 100 patents in the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) “Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations,”...more

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FTC Issues Policy Statement Confirming Its Position That Improperly Listing Patents in the Orange Book May Be Considered a...

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has released a new Policy Statement addressing one of its long-standing concerns in the pharmaceutical industry: the improper listing of patents in the Orange Book. In an open meeting of the...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

AGG Food & Drug Newsletter - August 2023

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP's Food & Drug Newsletter is a roundup of legal and regulatory issues that affect the FDA-regulated community and highlights articles from members of our Food & Drug practice, as well as from...more

Paul Hastings LLP

Finance in Five Minutes: Healthcare Finance Checkup

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While mergers and acquisitions, and attendant financings may not be at a blistering pace globally, the prognosis for deal activity in the healthcare sector remains healthy, in particular as the consolidation of providers, the...more

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McDermottPlus Check-Up: May 19, 2023

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The House and Senate were both in session this week, with significant healthcare activity at the committee level. The House Ways & Means Committee met to discuss healthcare price transparency, and the Ways & Means Health...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Senate Once Again Tries to Address Drug Pricing

Over the past several years Congress has tried to address high drug prices, with variable success  (see "FTC to the Rescue Regarding High Drug Prices and Patents"; "Even More Ill-Conceived Remedies from Congress Regarding...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Don’t Bring Me Down: HIV Prescription Drug Company Decides Not to Participate in the NAD Process (And NAD Refers the Matter to FDA...

It’s not clear whether the prescription drug company was channeling Electric Light Orchestra’s 1979 hit or The Animals’ 1966 song, but “Don’t Bring Me Down” was the attitude when the company declined to participate in a case...more

McDermott Will & Emery

After Almost 25 Years, FTC Issues New Health Products Compliance Guidance

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced its Health Products Compliance Guidance on December 20, 2022. The 2022 guidance updates and replaces the FTC’s 1998 guidance, Dietary Supplements: An Advertising Guide for...more

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FTC Announces Health Products Compliance Guidance

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On December 20th, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission published new guidance regarding claims about the benefits and safety of health-related products: Health Products Compliance Guidance. This guidance replaces the...more

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FTC’s PBM Study Signals Broader Federal Scrutiny of the Prescription Drug Sector

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On June 7, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) unanimously voted to initiate a study into how business practices employed by some pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) may impact prescription drug pricing and patient access...more

Fish & Richardson

Biosimilars 2021 Year in Review

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2021 saw several important milestones in the biosimilars space, including the much anticipated first interchangeable designations by FDA and the approval of the first ophthalmology biosimilar. The biosimilar market also...more

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