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On May 21, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued its third round of warning letters – and its first under the Trump administration – against pharmaceutical manufacturers for allegedly improper listing of patents in...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is continuing to pursue pharmaceutical manufacturers for allegedly improperly listing patents in the “Orange Book,” delaying the entry of generic drug competitors. On May 21, the FTC...more
On May 21, 2025 the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued renewed warning letters to five companies regarding over 200 allegedly improperly-listed patents in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s Orange Book. Announcing...more
Policy differences are endemic in politics, and the phrase "causing more heat than light" regarding federal drug policy comes readily to mind listening to the rhetoric coming from the Federal Trade Commission in this regard. ...more
As we recently discussed, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) sent warning letters to certain drug manufacturers regarding their purportedly improper listing of device patents in the Food and Drug Administration’s (“FDA”)...more
The Biological Product Patent Transparency Act (“BPPT”) – tucked into Congress’s omnibus spending bill (“Consolidated Appropriations Act,” H.R. 133, Pub. L. No. 116-260) signed into law on December 27, 2020 – is the...more
A federal district court recently dismissed a lawsuit against AbbVie and biosimilar manufacturers of adalimumab involving a novel antitrust claim against the Humira patent estate. Attorneys with Haug Partners LLP take an...more
The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit held that pharmaceutical companies that wrongly list patents in FDA’s Orange Book must prove they acted in good faith to avoid antitrust liability. In re Lantus Direct Purchaser...more
In a holding that could significantly broaden the antitrust inquiry in the context of the Hatch-Waxman regulatory scheme, on February 13, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued an opinion that may have...more