all - Opinion Summaries

FOREST LABS., INC. v. ABBOTT LABS.

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
Award of attorneys' fees is reversed where the district court erred in finding this case to be "exceptional" under 35 U.S.C. section 285 based on...

BROUDO v. DURA PHARMS., INC.

Drugs & Biotech, Securities Law
A complaint satisfied the loss causation element of a Section 10(b) violation of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 with respect to a device for...

SCHERING CORP. v. GENEVA PHARMS., INC.

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
Because the district court correctly found that plaintiff's patent for the antihistamine loratadine inherently anticipates two claims of a patent that...

MCNEIL-PPC, INC. v. L. PERRIGO CO.

Attorney's Fees, Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
Though the district court correctly determined that asserted claims of plaintiff's patents directed to a method for treating gastrointestinal distress...

IN RE VITAMIN CASES

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Attorney's Fees, Drugs & Biotech
In an antitrust class action lawsuit brought on behalf of direct purchasers of vitamins, an award of attorney fees and costs must be reversed and...

TORPHARM INC. v. RANBAXY PHARMS., INC.

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
The grant of summary judgment invalidating plaintiff's patent based on obviousness is reversed because, despite plaintiff's assertion of improved Form...

US v. ST. LOUIS UNIV.

Drugs & Biotech, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
Because there is no evidence that the government's regulatory violations proximately caused victim's injury, defendant has failed to show that it is...

AMERICAN CYANAMID CO. v. ST. LOUIS UNIV.

Drugs & Biotech, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
Under Missouri law, because defendant has simply failed to present any competent evidence showing that the defect in a vaccine (excessive...

ABBOTT LABS v. SYNTRON BIORESEARCH, INC.

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
Judgment of non-infringement is reversed as to two claims in a patent generally directed to devices and methods for performing chemical analysis.

CASTILLO v. E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS & CO., INC.

Drugs & Biotech, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
Expert scientific testimony, offered at trial in a product liability and negligence claim against manufacturers of an agricultural fungicide, was...