The Federal Trade Commission can go after six years of Cephalon’s profits in a reverse-payment case against the pharmaceutical company, a federal judge has ruled.

Reverse-payment settlements are the deals made by major pharmaceutical companies with generic drugmakers in order to keep the cheaper drugs off the market and, in this case, Cephalon had made deals with four generic drugmakers ranging from $25 million to $164 million to protect its name-brand wakefulness drug called Provigil.

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