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Patrick J. O'Toole, Jr., Elizabeth S. Weiswasser, Matthew L. Knowles, Bryana T. McGillycuddy | Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Introduction A controversy over what the Supreme Court has now defined as “reverse payment settlement agreements” has been brewing for years. A reverse payment settlement agreement is a settlement agreement resolving patent infringement litigation brought by an innovator against a...

Healthcare

Douglas A. Grimm, Laura E. Souchik | Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP

Charged with protecting the integrity of federal healthcare funds, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has allowed parties in violation of the law to self-report their actions under its self-disclosure protocol (SDP) as a method of...

Healthcare | Life Sciences

Randolph V. Clower | Phillips Lytle LLP

Editor: Please describe your background as a life science patent attorney at Phillips Lytle. Clower: I hold a PhD in molecular biology from the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, where my research focused on elucidating the bimolecular mechanisms of mammalian DNA...