McKESSON AND ROBBINS, INC. v. CHARLES PFIZER & CO.

Civ. A. No. 36342.

235 F.Supp. 743 (1964)

McKESSON AND ROBBINS, INC. v. CHARLES PFIZER & CO. Inc. and American Cyanamid Co.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

Order November 5, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fox, Rothschild, O'Brien & Frankel, Nochem S. Winnet, Philadelphia, Pa., Arnold, Fortas & Porter, Paul A. Porter, William L. McGovern, Abe Krash, Robert E. Herzstein, John D. Hawke, Jr., Daniel A. Rezneck, Washington, D. C., Morgan, Finnegan, Durham & Pine, George B. Finnegan, Jr., Jerome G. Lee, David H. Pfeffer, New York City, Laurence C. Ehrhardt, New York City, of counsel, for plaintiff, McKesson & Robbins, Inc.

Drinker, Biddle & Reath, Philadelphia, Pa., Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine, New York City (Lewis H. Van Dusen, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa., Walter R. Mansfield, Richard Y. Holcomb, New York City, Patrick T. Ryan, Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel), for defendant American Cyanamid Co.


DAVIS, District Judge.

This action was instituted on August 11, 1964 by the filing of a complaint for declaratory judgment by McKesson and Robbins, Inc. (McKesson) against Charles Pfizer & Co., Inc. (Pfizer) to have Pfizer's tetracycline patent declared invalid. On August 14, 1964 McKesson amended its complaint to allege a cause of action against Pfizer and American Cyanamid Co. (Cyanamid) for treble damages and injunctive...

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