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Consumer Groups Ask Congress to Add Pay-for-Delay Provision to Health Care Bill

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Donald Zuhn -- On Monday, the American Antitrust Institute (AAI) sent a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), urging the House and Senate to include provisions in their health care reform bills that would prohibit exclusion payments in pharmaceutical patent settlements. These payments, also known as pay-for delay settlements or reverse payments, are made by brand name drug companies to generic drug companies in order to delay the entry of a generic drug into the market. Co-signatories on the letter included Families USA, U.S. PIRG, the Consumer Federation of...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on January 14, 2010 (boomark / email).