Spring cleaning: The Tipline for 3 April 2023

Do faulty pay-for-delay claims spark joy? Not for the New York City judge presiding over the Bystolic antitrust litigation. Judge Lewis Liman probably didn’t use the Marie Kondo method to clean out his docket, but he did find that retailers suing the drug manufacturers couldn’t prove the challenged patent litigation settlements were anticompetitive. Also in Tipline, the Department of Justice looks to non-compete agreements, while consumers, developers and state enforcers fight back against Google’s attempt to delay a trial date.