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Servier tells EU judges patent settlements were no 'by object' breach of competition law

By Nicholas Hirst
  • 21 Oct 2021 05:26
  • 21 Oct 2021 05:26
Les Laboratoires Servier's patent settlements with producers of generic drugs had benefits that ought to have counterbalanced any initial competition concerns by the EU regulator, the company told the bloc's highest court.
Pleading late into yesterday evening at the EU Court of Justice, the French drugmaker launched several salvos against

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Nicholas Hirst

Chief Correspondent


Nicholas covers EU merger review and antitrust investigations for Mlex in Brussels. He previously wrote about EU affairs for Politico Europe, European Voice and PaRR. After earning an LLM in European law from the College of Europe in Bruges, he spent a year working in the competition practice of a leading competition law firm in Brussels 2009-10. He graduated in modern European languages from Oxford University in 2006.

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