Activating Actavis in Europe – the proposal of a ‘structured effects-based’ analysis for pay-for-delay settlements

Gallasch, Sven (2016) Activating Actavis in Europe – the proposal of a ‘structured effects-based’ analysis for pay-for-delay settlements. Legal Studies, 36 (4). 683–705. ISSN 0261-3875

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Abstract

Striking the right balance between the protection of competition law and intellectual property rights is of utmost importance, especially in the pharmaceutical sector; affordable generic drugs are as important as new innovative drugs. Pay-for-delay settlements take place at exactly this intersection. They end patent infringement litigation but, at the same time, delay entry of generic drugs by means of a substantial payment from the brand company to the generic. Whereas the US Supreme Court opted for a rule of reason approach that requires an analysis of the potential anticompetitive effects, the European Commission regarded such settlements as restriction by object, finding an infringement without the need for an effects-based analysis. This approach is criticised and a novel ‘structured effects-based’ approach is proposed allowing the authority to effectively scrutinise such settlements while striking the right balance in order to protect the innovative process and the exercise of intellectual property rights.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law
Related URLs:	http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.11...
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	08 Jun 2016 16:00
Last Modified:	22 Oct 2022 01:02
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/59270
DOI:	10.1111/lest.12130

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