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- Title
UNCERTAINTY AND REVERSE PAYMENTS.
- Authors
WOODCOCK, RAMSI A.
- Abstract
The current approach to "reverse payment" settlements of drug patent litigation seeks to preclude only those settlements guaranteed to harm consumers, rather than all that could harm them. Antitrust tolerates the possibility of harm in order to give firms the freedom to make settlements that might benefit consumers, relative to what courts would achieve under patent law. Antitrust's mission is not, however, to improve upon outcomes under patent law, but rather to prevent harm to consumers. Accordingly, antitrust must minimize the possibility of harm, even if that precludes the chance of gain. I show that a ban on all settlements that fix a date of entry, regardless of the existence of a reverse payment or the number of generic challengers, is the best way to do that.
- Subjects
UNITED States; DRUG patent lawsuits; CONSUMER protection; ANTITRUST law; LEGAL settlement; PATENT law
- Publication
Tennessee Law Review, 2016, Vol 84, Issue 1, p99
- ISSN
0040-3288
- Publication type
Article