[Ip-health] Senate Passes Reverse Payment Bill

James Love james.love@cptech.org
Fri Feb 16 10:11:04 2007


Begin forwarded message:

Yesterday the Senate Judiciary Committee passed the "Preserve Access
to Affordable Generics Act" (S. 316) today by unanimous consent.  If
enacted, the bill would prohibit "reverse payment" settlements of
Hatch-Waxman litigation, in which an innovator drug company pays a
generic drug company something of value to delay marketing its
generic drug product