{"id":881,"date":"2009-07-29T07:42:28","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T14:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=881"},"modified":"2009-07-29T07:42:28","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T14:42:28","slug":"new-article-hatch-waxman-settlements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2009\/07\/29\/new-article-hatch-waxman-settlements\/","title":{"rendered":"New Article:  Hatch-Waxman Settlements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve posted my current draft article, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=1440780\">Rational Competition Policy and Reverse Payment Settlements in Hatch-Waxman Patent Litigation<\/a>,&#8221; on SSRN.\u00a0 Here is the Abstract:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This paper examines the problem of \u201creverse payment\u201d settlements in patent litigation under the Hatch-Waxman Act.  A reverse payment settlement involves a payment from a branded pharmaceutical company to a generic manufacturer, usually in return for the generic manufacturer\u2019s agreement to delay market entry.  Federal appellate courts, regulatory agencies and commentators are divided about the legality of such agreements.  This paper argues that the importance of product market definition has been overlooked in existing treatments of the issue.  The paper develops an empirically-based \u201cSettlement Competition Index\u201d that could be used by courts and regulatory agencies to evaluate reverse payment settlements.  A formula to calculate the Settlement Competition Index is provided and tested with hypothetical and real-world examples.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve posted my current draft article, &#8220;Rational Competition Policy and Reverse Payment Settlements in Hatch-Waxman Patent Litigation,&#8221; on SSRN.\u00a0 Here is the Abstract: This paper examines the problem of \u201creverse payment\u201d settlements in patent litigation under the Hatch-Waxman Act. A reverse payment settlement involves a payment from a branded pharmaceutical company to a generic manufacturer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-and-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-ed","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}