1st Circ. Charts Conservative Post-Actavis Course In Loestrin

Law360, New York (February 26, 2016, 10:27 AM EST) -- In its Feb. 22, 2016 unanimous panel decision in the Loestrin 24 Fe Antitrust Litigation,[1] the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit became the second federal appellate court since the U.S. Supreme Court's seminal decision in Federal Trade Commission v. Actavis[2] to wrestle with the knotty problem of "reverse payment" settlements of Hatch-Waxman Act-related[3] pharmaceutical patent infringement claims.[4] Although the court of appeals sought to limit its decision to a narrow legal question, the reader familiar with this growing body of litigation might take five points away from the decision....

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