Top EU Court Urged To Take Harder Line On Servier Perindopril Agreements
Advocate General Suggests CJEU Should Set Aside Certain General Court Findings
Executive Summary
European allegations of abuses of dominant positions in the pharmaceutical sector may once again be reframed, after the CJEU was advised by advocate general Juliane Kokott to set aside certain findings of the General Court on settlement deals made by Servier with multiple generics firms over perindopril.
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