MATTER OF MAHURKAR DOUBLE LUMEN HEMOD. CATH. PATENT

No. MDL 853.

750 F.Supp. 330 (1990)

In the Matter of MAHURKAR DOUBLE LUMEN HEMODIALYSIS CATHETER PATENT LITIGATION.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, E.D.

November 5, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy H. Wepner, Joseph S. Littenberg, John R. Nelson, Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik, Westfield, N.J., for Vas-Cath Inc., Gambro, Inc. and Omni Medical Products.

Daniel W. Vittum, Jr., Russell E. Levine, Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, Ill., for Vas-Cath Inc. and Omni Medical Products, Inc.

Arthur Sternberg, Pedersen & Houpt P.C., Chicago, Ill., for Gambro, for notice purposes only.

Michael W. Coffield, Michael J. Philippi, Coffield, Ungaretti, Harris & Slavin, Chicago, Ill., for Geoffrey Martin and M. Jane Martin.

Samuel Fifer, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, Chicago, Ill., for Quinton Instruments Co.

Joseph N. Hosteny, Raymond P. Niro, John C. Janka, Michael P. Mazza, Niro, Scavone, Haller & Niro, Ltd., Chicago, Ill., for Sakharam D. Mahurkar and Quinton Instruments Co.

Alan L. Unikel, Maureen Gorman, Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson, Chicago, Ill., for Michael Reese Hosp., University of Chicago Hosp., Chicago Osteopathic Hosp. and Jackson Park Hosp.

Granger Cook, Jr., Mark J. Murphy, Cook, Egan, McFarron & Manzo, Ltd., Chicago, Ill., Marvin A. Glazer, Cahill, Sutton & Thomas, Phoenix, Ariz., for Impra, Inc.

H. Ross Workman, Workman, Nydegger & Jensen, Salt Lake City, Utah, for Kendall Med-West.

Steven J. Baron, American Home Products Co., Michael J. Sweedler, Anthony C. Coles, Darby & Darby, P.C., New York City, for Quinton Instruments Co.


OPINION

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

Shortly after I issued Vas-Cath Inc. v. Mahurkar, 745 F.Supp. 517 (N.D.Ill.1990), the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation transferred to me two related cases. A fourth case was transferred from within the Northern District of Illinois. On October 29, 1990, I held an initial conference to set schedules for the consolidated pretrial...

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