Watson and reverse payments: an opportunity to resolve the competing tension between antitrust and patent law under the Hatch-Waxman Act *

USA - March 8 2013
On March 25, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Federal Trade Commission v. Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and take a step toward concluding…

Co-authors: Alicia J Batts, Rhett R Krulla, Colin Kass, Helene D Jaffe, Scott P Cooper.

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Betting on the wrong market definition *

USA - March 8 2013
In IGT v. Alliance Gaming Corporation slot machine manufacturers, IGT and Alliance Gaming Corp., Bally Gaming International, Inc., and Bally…

Co-authors: Alicia J Batts, Rhett R Krulla, Colin Kass, Helene D Jaffe, Scott P Cooper.

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Judge Posner on the limits of the per se rule against price fixing *

USA - March 8 2013
Every so often a case finds its way to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, which provides Judge Richard Posner, the noted antitrust scholar and…

Co-authors: Alicia J Batts, Rhett R Krulla, Colin Kass, Helene D Jaffe, Scott P Cooper.

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Placing limits on the State Action Doctrine, the Supreme Court subjects local government hospitals to scrutiny under the antitrust laws *

USA - February 21 2013
Recent major regulatory and technological developments have brought forth historic changes to the health care market. Health care providers have…

Co-authors: Richard J Zall, Ryan P Blaney, Monte I Dube, Colin Kass, Helene D Jaffe.

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Federal Trade Commission announces 2013 threshold revisions for HSR Act and for Clayton Act Section 8 prohibition on interlocking directorates *

USA - January 14 2013
The Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, commonly known as the HSR Act, requires parties to certain corporate transactions to notify…

Co-authors: John R Ingrassia, Alicia J Batts, Rhett R Krulla, Colin Kass, Helene D Jaffe.

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