Legal Opinion
Federal Trade Commission v. Abbvie Products LLC
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided March 21, 2013No. 12-16488PublishedCited by 113 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARCUS, Circuit Judge:
Several years ago, Appellee Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) began investigating a settlement between Appellant AbbVie Products LLC, then known as Solvay Pharmaceuticals (“Solvay”), and several other pharmaceutical companies. The settlement, the FTC believed, violated the antitrust laws because the companies effectively had colluded to preserve the monopoly profits from Solvay’s highly lucrative patent on AndroGel, a topical testosterone gel. During the course of the investigation, Solvay voluntarily disclosed a confidential document called the Project Tulip Financial…
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