Milton Bass
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Prominent food and drug attorney and founder of now-dismantled Bass & Ullman (New York City) died Oct. 9 in an auto accident. Bass, 79, represented a variety of clients in the natural foods industry, including NNFA, successfully litigating a pair of cases in the 1970s that contested stricter regulations on vitamin sales. In the generic drug arena, he served as counsel to the National Association of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers for years, successfully argued a 1982 Supreme Court case allowing equal trade dress for generic drug products and participated in negotiations of the 1984 Waxman/Hatch Drug Price Competition & Patent Term Restoration Act. Bass semi-retired from the firm and went "of counsel" in January 1999 (1"The Tan Sheet" Jan. 18, 1999, p. 9)
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