What IP Lawyers Need to Know About California’s New Reverse Payment Law

What IP Lawyers Need to Know About California’s New Reverse Payment Law

Webinar
Speaking Engagement CLE

Please join us on Thursday, January 30, 2020, for a webinar during which we will discuss California’s new reverse payment law—AB-824, Preserving Access to Affordable Drugs—and what it means for settlements of patent litigation involving generic pharmaceuticals and biosimilars across the nation. The webinar will feature Mark A. Ford, a partner in WilmerHale’s Antitrust and Competition Group, who focuses on issues at the antitrust-IP intersection.

During the webinar, we will:

  • break down the new law, which went into effect January 1, and highlight how the California law’s treatment of so-called reverse payment settlements differs from the treatment of those settlements under federal antitrust law in the wake of Fed. Trade Comm’n v. Actavis, 570 U.S. 136 (2013);
  • analyze the practical implications the California law has for litigation cost avoidance payments, which have been a common feature of Hatch-Waxman settlements, even after Actavis; and
  • provide an update on a pending constitutional challenge to California’s law, which is currently on appeal to the Ninth Circuit.

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*CLE credit is not available for those who watch webinar recordings.

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