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: Alan R Kusinitz, Alicia J Batts, 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: Alan R Kusinitz, Alicia J Batts, 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: Alan R Kusinitz, Alicia J Batts, Colin Kass, Helene D Jaffe, Scott P Cooper.

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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: Alan R Kusinitz, John R Ingrassia, Alicia J Batts, Colin Kass, Helene D Jaffe.

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Third Circuit creates reverse payments split among the circuits *

USA - July 25 2012
Rejecting the test established by three separate courts of appeal, the Third Circuit's recent decision in In re K-Dur Antitrust Litigation has created a circuit split regarding the legality of, and application of antitrust law to, "pay-for-delay" settlements to patent lawsuits.

Co-authors: Alan R Kusinitz, John R Ingrassia, Alicia J Batts, Ronald S Rauchberg, Colin Kass.

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