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Patient Right to Know Drug Prices Act

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Pub. L. No. 115-263, 132 Stat. 3673, codified in relevant part at 21 U.S.C. § 355 note
Section 3 of this Act requires certain agreements involving biosimilar biological drugs to be filed with the antitrust agencies in the same way certain agreements involving generic drugs must be filed...
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Merger Review

How Mergers are Reviewed Among the key provisions in U.S. antitrust law is one designed to prevent anticompetitive mergers or acquisitions. Under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, the FTC and the Department...
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U.S. Privilege Following Akzo Nobel v. European Commission

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Lawyers who have been paying attention to such things might recall the predicted fallout from the decision in Akzo Chemicals Ltd v. European Commission , Case C-550/07-P (September 14, 2010) . In Akzo...
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FTC at work outside the Beltway

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This week, we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the opening of the first FTC regional office . According to the Commission’s 1918 Annual Report , the FTC first established three branch offices...
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Lessons from FTC v. Wilhelmsen for merger practitioners

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Last month, Judge Tanya S. Chutkan of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia granted the FTC’s Motion for Preliminary Injunction, halting Wilhelmsen’s proposed acquisition of...
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It takes less time to do a thing right

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Longfellow said “It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.” We agree, especially when it comes to designing effective merger remedies—ones that maintain competition...
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Timing is everything: The Model Timing Agreement

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The Bureau of Competition has undertaken several initiatives to streamline our merger review process in order to reach swifter resolutions—whether that be clearance, a negotiated settlement, or a...
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HSR threshold adjustments and reportability for 2018

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When Congress passed the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, it created minimum dollar thresholds to limit the burden of premerger reporting. In 2000, it amended the HSR statute to...
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Vertical mergers, yesterday and today

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Last week, I spoke about a topic that has attracted a lot of popular interest in antitrust enforcement lately—vertical merger enforcement. We view vertical mergers as an important part of the FTC’s...