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14 October 2016PharmaBernd Allekotte and Franz Zimmer

Pay-for-delay: Play by the rules

On September 8, the EU General Court handed down its judgment in appeal proceedings brought by Danish innovator Lundbeck and a number of generic companies against a 2013 European Commission decision that imposed fines of €146 million ($164 million) on the appellants.

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