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But that points to a problem with the Hatch-Waxman Act, the U.S. law governing patent challenges.
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Some come from exploiting loopholes in the Hatch-Waxman act, which regulates the marketing of copycat drugs.
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Ironically, another federal law the Hatch-Waxman Act inspires the type of patent suits to which The Times refers.
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Thanks to the Hatch-Waxman Act of 1984, the United States has the most efficient generic pharmaceutical market in the world.
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But regulators at the FTC have taken a different view, saying that such payments dilute the purpose of the Hatch-Waxman Act of 1984.
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The whole controversy arises from the Hatch-Waxman Act, a 1984 law in which Congress cleverly shoved the question of whether generics could compete with entrenched patentholders in front of the courts.
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Rep. Henry Waxman, D-California, who co-wrote the Hatch-Waxman Act, has been very vocal in arguing that a law Congress intended to help reduce the cost of prescription medicines has been hijacked by the drug industry to do the opposite.
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These cases involve a complex web of federal laws and legal principles, including the patent system established under the Constitution, antitrust law, and the Hatch-Waxman Act, a 1984 law that was intended to give generic manufacturers an incentive to challenge patents.
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"Responses like these might encourage some women to raise the bar on how they talk and act in the bedroom, " sex educator Jamye Waxman says.
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Waxman went before the U.S. Supreme Court last week to praise the Communications Decency Act, not to bury it.
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