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FTC Continues Attempts to Block Reverse Payments

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

By Kevin E. Noonan -- The Federal Trade Commission is nothing if not persistent in trying to eliminate "reverse payment" settlements in ANDA litigation, even going so far as to "forum shop" to do so, according to a brief by appellees Unimed Pharmaceuticals LLC, Abbott Products, Inc., and Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. In their responsive brief in the FTC's appeal to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, defendants-appellees allege that the FTC initially filed suit in the Central District of California, hoping to get a decision from the 9th Circuit at odds with the 11th Circuit's consistent precedent (Valley Drug Co....

Full post as published by Patent Docs on November 24, 2010 (boomark / email).