Legal Opinion
United Food & Commercial Workers Unions v. Warner Chilcott Ltd. (In Re Asacol Antitrust Litig.)
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 15, 2018No. 18-1065PPublishedCited by 103 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KAYATTA, Circuit Judge.
Drug manufacturer Warner Chilcott Limited pulled one of its products-Asacol-from the market just months before the drug's patent protection expired. Warner simultaneously introduced a similar but not exactly identical substitute drug called Delzicol, the patent protection for which ran years longer. This coordinated withdrawal and entry of the two drugs allegedly precluded generic manufacturers from introducing a generic version of Asacol, which would have provided a lower-cost alternative to Warner's drugs Delzicol and Asacol HD, a version of Asacol that was also still…
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