Interpreting Stock Reactions To Reverse-Payment Settlements

Law360, New York (February 11, 2015, 4:30 PM EST) -- When branded drug companies settle patent litigation (known as Paragraph IV or Hatch-Waxman litigation) with would-be generic competitors, they sometimes enter into contemporaneous business agreements with the generic companies. There is a concern that such agreements may constitute payments from the brand company to the generic company (so-called "reverse payments") in exchange for the generic company agreeing to delay entry beyond the date that would be expected were the patent case litigated....

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