F.T.C. v. ABBVIE PRODUCTS LLC

No. 12-16488.

713 F.3d 54 (2013)

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, Plaintiff-Counter Defendant-Appellee, v. ABBVIE PRODUCTS LLC, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

March 21, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark S. Hegedus , Bradley S. Albert , John F. Daly , Michael J. Perry , John R. Robertson , Lore A. Unt , Mark J. Woodward , Office of Gen. Counsel, FTC, Washington, D.C., Chris Couillou , Cindy A. Liebes, FTC, Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiff-Counter Defendant-Appellee.

Jeffrey I. Weinberger , Adam R. Lawton , Munger, Tolles & Olson, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Teresa Bonder, Matthew Kent , Alston & Bird, LLP, Atlanta, GA, Michelle Friedland, Rohit K. Singla , Munger, Tolles & Olson, LLP, San Francisco, CA, John Roberti , Mayer Brown, LLP, Washington, DC, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before MARCUS, BLACK and SILER, Circuit Judges.


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...

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