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Our dedicated antitrust lawyers have considerable experience in complex commercial litigation. They are routinely involved in the development of complex factual and legal issues involving antitrust, intellectual property, and regulatory law. Our attorneys have decades of experience in federal trial and appellate courts and have been involved in some of the leading antitrust cases in recent years. We regularly represent retail pharmacies in cases challenging anticompetitive practices by brand and generic pharmaceutical companies to keep the price of pharmaceutical drugs high. Our cases involve complex issues at the intersection of antitrust, intellectual property, and pharmaceutical regulatory law. They are often multijurisdictional cases that can go on for years.
For more than two decades, we have represented some of the country’s largest retail drugstore chains in ground-breaking cases concerning the availability of competitively priced pharmaceutical products. On behalf of our clients, we have vigorously opposed various means by which brand drug manufacturers have delayed generic competition, including the use of reverse payment patent settlements, sham litigation, sham FDA Citizen Petitions, wrongful patent listings in the FDA’s Orange Book, and predatory product hopping.
Chambers Review
Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller is particularly noted for its deft handling of antitrust challenges to reverse payments in the pharmaceutical sector. Often appears before trial and appellate courts.
Work Highlights
- Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller represented Rite Aid and CVS Pharmacy in a lawsuit against Gilead and Teva challenging a reverse payment made to delay generic Truvada and Atripla.
Strengths
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"The firm has extremely talented lawyers."
"The firm has extremely talented lawyers."
Notable Practitioners
Barry Refsin is commended for his work on behalf of pharmaceutical companies as plaintiffs in reverse payment antitrust challenges.
"Barry is a smart and terrific lawyer."
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Pennsylvania
Members
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Head of Department
Eric Bloom
Industries
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Pharmaceuticals
Retail