SCHERING CORP. v. ZENECA INC.

Civil Action No. 95-566-RRM.

958 F.Supp. 196 (1996)

SCHERING CORPORATION, Plaintiff, Roussel-Uclaf SA, Joined As Involuntary Plaintiff, v. ZENECA INC. and Zeneca Holdings, Inc., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Delaware.

February 20, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven Balick, and Amy Quinlan, Ashby and Geddes, Wilmington, DE; Gregory L. Diskant, Jeffrey I.D. Lewis, Michael J. Timmons, Robert Lehrburger, and Jennifer Pariser, Patterson, Belknap, Webb and Tyler LLP, New York City; Robert J. Trainor, James R. Nelson, Thomas D. Hoffman, and Jane G. Wasman, Schering Corporation, Kenilworth, NJ, for Plaintiff Schering Corporation.

Arthur G. Connolly, Jr., and Gerard M. O'Rourke, Connolly, Bove, Lodge and Hutz, Wilmington, DE; James F. Lesniak, Joseph R. Re, and Joseph R. Jennings, Knobbe, Martens, Olson and Bear, Newport Beach, CA, for Involuntary Plaintiff Roussel-Uclaf SA.

Jack B. Blumenfeld, and Mary B. Graham, Morris, Nichols, Arsht and Tunnell, Wilmington, DE; E. Anthony Figg, Steven Lieberman, Bart G. Newland, Joseph A. Hynds, Jeffrey B. McIntyre, and Mark I. Bowditch, Rothwell, Figg, Ernst and Kurz, Washington, DC; Arthur F. Cohen, and Joel M. Cohen, Davis, Polk and Wardwell, New York City; William C. Lucas, and Laura Davies, Zeneca, Inc., Wilmington, DE, for Defendants Zeneca Inc. and Zeneca Holdings Inc.


OPINION

McKELVIE, District Judge.

This is a patent case. Plaintiff Schering Corporation ("Schering") and involuntary plaintiff Roussel-Uclaf SA ("Roussel") are the co-owners of U.S. Patent No. 4,472,382 (the "'382 Patent"). The '382 patent claims a method of treating prostate cancer and benign prostatic hypertrophy, which is a benign enlargement of the prostate common in men over 50 years of age. The claimed method involves applying two therapies at the...

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