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Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

Federal Circuit Holds Generic’s Hatch-Waxman Litigation Expenses Deductible

A March 21 Federal Circuit decision in Actavis Laboratories FL, Inc. v. United States, No. 23-1320 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 21, 2025) marked a victory for generic drug developers, affirming that legal expenses incurred defending...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Tax Bytes: Week of March 24, 2025

Tax developments - Actavis and deductible expenses - On March 21, 2025, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit released a decision in Actavis Laboratories FL, Inc. v. United States, holding that taxpayers could...more

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Federal Circuit Confirms Deductibility of Hatch-Waxman Litigation Expenses

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On March 21, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held in a precedential opinion that legal fees incurred by generic drug companies in defending against patent infringement suits brought under the Hatch-Waxman Act...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Third Circuit holds patent infringement fees do not facilitate ANDA approval

In an opinion released July 27, 2023, the Third Circuit affirmed a 2021 Tax Court decision upholding a pharmaceutical company’s immediate deduction of patent defense litigation costs in suits brought under the Hatch-Waxman...more

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP

Hatch-Waxman Litigation Costs Both Capital Expenditures And Ordinary Business Expenses

Under the Internal Revenue Code (“Code”) Section 162, ordinary and necessary business expenses are deductible, but Code Section 263 disallows a deduction for capital expenditures (“no deduction shall be allowed” for a capital...more

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Tax Court Finds Legal Fees Incurred in Defending Hatch-Waxman Lawsuits are ‎Deductible Expenses

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On April 27, 2021, the U.S. Tax Court issued its decision in Mylan, Inc. v. Comm’r of Internal Revenue regarding which legal fees that a generic-drug manufacturer incurs in connection with its Abbreviated New Drug Application...more

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Intellectual Property Bulletin - Summer 2018

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In This Issue - US Taxation of IP After Tax Reform - U.S. taxation of intellectual property has become astoundingly more complex after the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The new rules are so complex that the IRS and Treasury...more

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