06/23/2014
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"I think you have to presume that the patent is invalid in order, legitimately, to call it pay for delay."
"A presumption of illegality is proper only when 'an observer with even a rudimentary understanding of economics could conclude that the arrangements in question would have an anti-competitive effect o..."
"Mr. Orszag, so much of the discussion today, including some of your discussion with Senator Klobuchar, has focused on the potential harm to customers that consumers might incur from reverse settlement..."
"And it's for that very reason that the Supreme Court has tended, over the course of the last century, to lean more toward the Rule of Reason and away from per se rules of invalidity and also from pres..."