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Purdue Pharma. L.P. v. Epic Pharma, LLC

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
In appeals arising from consolidated Hatch-Waxman proceedings involving the reformulated version of the pain reliever OxyContin, asserting a number of...

US ex rel. May v. Purdue Pharma

False Advertising, Health Law, Drugs & Biotech
In a qui tam action brought under the False Claims Act (FCA), the district court's dismissal is affirmed where the FCA's public disclosure bar, 31...

Ethicon-Endo Surgery, Inc. v. Covidien LP

Intellectual Property, Patent, Drugs & Biotech
In an appeal of inter partes review by the Patent Trial and Appeals Board which found all challenged claims of a patent, directed to a surgical device...

Gadbois v. PharMerica Corp.

Civil Procedure, Health Law, Drugs & Biotech
In qui tam action, alleging that defendant had committed numerous infractions related to its distribution of prescription drugs to long-term care...

Pasternack v. Laboratory Corp.

Injury & Tort Law, Administrative Law, Drugs & Biotech, Judges & Judiciary
In an action arising after defendant drug-testing companies allegedly mishandled plaintiff's random drug test required by federal regulations...

Arisosa Diagnostic v. Verinata Health, Inc.

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
In an appeal of an interpartes review in an infringement action involving a patent for noninvasive prenatal testing for the presence of fetal...

Sergeants Benevolent Ass'n v.Sanofi-Aventis US

Class Actions, Health Law, Drugs & Biotech
In a class action brought by three health-benefit plans against defendant pharmaceutical company, alleging that defendant's failure to disclose health...

Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. v. Roxane Laboratories, Inc.

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
In an infringement action involving patents related to the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), the district court's judgment, finding the...

Donorovich-Odonnell v. Harris

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, Government Law, Health Law
In a suit brought by terminally ill cancer plaintiffs, seeking a judicial declaration that Penal Code section 401, which imposes criminal liability on...

In re Avandia Marketing

Class Actions, Drugs & Biotech, White Collar Crime
In a class action against GlaxoSmithKline (GSD), brought by health and welfare funds alleging federal RICO claims related to the fraudulent marketing...