AAM Strengthens Calls For Reforms To Stop Anticompetitive Tactics

Six Areas Listed Including Skinny Label Carve Outs

The US Association for Accessible Medicines discussed six areas for reform during a recent US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing “shining a spotlight on the anti-competitive tactics used by some brand name pharmaceutical companies to delay patient access” to generics and biosimilars.

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Strengthening and restoring IPRs were among issues discussed • Source: Shutterstock

The US Association for Accessible Medicines has listed six key areas for reform during a competition-focused US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in order to “ensure that the patent system is appropriately balanced, and that antitrust law is properly used to police truly anticompetitive behavior.”

Maintaining “skinny label” carve-outs of patented indications and prohibiting false and misleading statements about the safety and efficacy of biosimilars...

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