all - Opinion Summaries

Smith v. St. Jude Medical Inc.

Drugs & Biotech, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
Summary judgment for defendants, a pacemaker supplier and an employee who was present during the procedure implanting the pacemaker, in plaintiffs'...

Novo Nordisk Inc. v. Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories, Ltd.

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
The district court's decision holding that claim 4 of plaintiff's patent ('358 patent) involving pharmaceuticals used in the treatment of Type II...

Federal Trade Commission v. Actavis, Inc.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
The Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the dismissal of a suit brought by plaintiff Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleging that violated section 5...

US v. Ihenacho

Criminal Law & Procedure, Drugs & Biotech
Defendants' convictions and sentences for dispensing and shipping drugs to customers pursuant to invalid online prescriptions for Internet pharmacy...

Teva Pharmaceuticals v. Superior Court of Orange County (Pikerie)

Constitutional Law, Drugs & Biotech, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In action in which plaintiff alleged that she suffered injuries as a result of ingesting a brand-name drug and its generic equivalents, defendant's...

Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc.

Constitutional Law, Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
A naturally occurring DNA segment is a product of nature and not patent eligible merely because it has been isolated, but cDNA, whose creation results...

US v. Ortho Biotech Products, LP

Civil Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, False Advertising, Health Law
In a qui tam action for alleged violations of the federal False Claims Act arising from defendant's marketing of the pharmaceutical drug Procrit,...

Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association v. Monsanto Co.

Agriculture, Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
Dismissal of an action for declaratory judgment of non-infringement and invalidity related to technologies for genetically modifying seeds, is...

Johnson v. SmithKline Beecham Corp

Civil Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, Injury & Tort Law
In a case seeking redress for lifelong physical and emotional suffering arising out of a now-banned drug thalidomide, appeal of the District Court's...

Deribeaux v. Secretary of Health and Human Servs.

Administrative Law, Drugs & Biotech, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
The United States Court of Federal Claims decision affirming a special master's decision denying plaintiffs' claim for compensation under the National...