Five Takeaways from the Second Circuit’s Namenda Decision

July 24, 2015

The Second Circuit's recent decision in New York v. Actavis, a case concerning the Alzheimer’s Disease treatment Namenda, grabbed headlines as the first appellate decision to uphold an injunction barring a branded pharmaceutical manufacturer from pulling a patented drug from the market. Now that the dust has settled after the ruling, it is time to assess how the decision could impact antitrust law inside and outside of the pharmaceutical industry.

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