Did Hatch-Waxman 'mistake' create pay-for-delay deals?
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
Did lawmakers make a mistake when they constructed the Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act of 1984, better known as the Hatch-Waxman Act, by failing to foresee the law would produce payments by big pharmas to generic drug makers to keep their products off the market for a certain amount of time?