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Teva Pharmaceuticals USA v. Sandoz Inc.

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
The district court's judgment that various claims of the nine patents-in-suit related to a drug used in treating multiple sclerosis, are infringed,...

In re: Bimeda Research & Development

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
The decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board rejecting certain claims introduced in the context of ex parte reexamination of claimant's patent,...

Mylan Inc. v. SmithKline Beecham Corporation

Contracts, Drugs & Biotech, Injury & Tort Law
Summary judgment to defendants in a dispute over competing rights over the rights to sell the pharmaceutical paroxetine in generic form is: 1)...

Novozymes A/S v. Dupont Nutrition Biosciences

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
Judgment for defendants in a patent infringement suit involving competitors in the market for enzyme preparations used in a variety of commercial...

E.D. v. Pfizer, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In a products liability and negligence suit brought by 19 families against pharmaceutical companies, alleging the antidepressant drug Zoloft caused...

Smith & Nephew, Inc. v. Rea

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
A decision of the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences that certain claims of a patent owned by defendant Synthes, related to a system for using...

Watkins v. Vital Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Consumer Protection Law, Drugs & Biotech, False Advertising
The district court's sua sponte order remanding this putative class action to state court is reversed and remanded, where: 1) the court has appellate...

Fresenius USA, Inc. v. Baxter International, Inc.

Constitutional Law, Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
The cancellation of the asserted claims of defendant's '434 patent, which teaches the use of a dialysis machine with an integrated touch screen...

Wyeth v. Abbott Laboratories

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
Summary judgment for defendant that claims 1 and 2 of plaintiff's '781 patent and claim 1 of plaintiff's '146 patent, which relate to methods for...

Mutual Pharmaceutical Co., Inc. v. Bartlett

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Drugs & Biotech, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
State-law design-defect claims that turn on the adequacy of a drug's warnings are pre-empted by federal law under PLIVA. Inc. v. Mensing, which held...