United States Second Circuit

In an action claiming that defendant pharmaceutical companies violated Section 1 of the Sherman Act when they settled their dispute concerning the validity of Bayer's Cipro patent by agreeing to a reverse exclusionary payment settlement, summary judgment for defendants is affirmed where patent settlements in which the generic firm agrees to delay entry into the market in exchange for payment fall within the scope of the patent holder's property rights.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/28/2009
• Decided 04/29/2010
• Published 04/29/2010

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before NEWMAN, POOLER, PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Steve D. Shadowen, (Monica L. Rebuck, on the brief), Hangley Aronchick Segal & Pudlin, Harrisburg, PA (Bruce E. Gerstein, Barry S. Taus, and Jan Bartelli, Garwin, Gerstein, & Fisher LLP, New York, NY, on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Paul E. Slater, Sperling & Slater, P.C., of counsel to Amicus Curiae American Antitrust Institute, Chicago, IL, in support of Plaintiffs-Appellants., Stacy J. Canan, (Bruce Vignery, on the brief), AARP Foundation Litigation, (Michael Schuster, AARP, on the brief), Washington, D.C., as Amici Curiae for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Don L. Bell, II, National Association of Chain Drug Stores, Inc., Alexandria, VA, as Amicus Curiae for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Christine A. Varney, Assistant Attorney General, (Philip J. Weiser, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, and Catherine G. O'Sullivan and David Seidman, Attorneys), U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the United States.


• For Appellees:
  
• Fred H. Bartlit, Jr., (Peter B. Bensinger, Jr., Michael J. Valaik, and Paul J. Skiermont, on the brief), Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP, Chicago, IL, (Philipp A. Proger, Kevin D. McDonald, and Lawrence D. Rosenberg, Jones Day, Washington, DC), for Defendants-Appellees Bayer AG and Bayer Corporation., Karen N. Walker, (Edwin John U, Bridget K. O'Connor, and Gregory L. Skidmore, on the brief), Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Washington, DC, (David E. Everson, Heather S. Woodson, and Victoria L. Smith, Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP, Kansas City, MO, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees Barr Laboratories, Inc., Hoechst Marion Roussel, Inc., The Rugby Group, Inc., and Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc.