IN RE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PATENT LITIGATION

No. MDL NO. 04-1592.

343 F.Supp.2d 35 (2004)

In re COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PATENT LITIGATION

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

November 5, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael S. D'Orsi, Peter E. Gelhaar, Donnelly, Conroy & Gelhaar, LLP, Boston, MA, Mark A. Pals, Marcus E. Sernel, Kirkland & Ellis, LLP, Chicago, IL, for Abbott Bioresearch Center.

Monique L. Cordray, Kathleen Fowler, Siegmund Y. Gutman, Amgen, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, Eileen M. Herlihy, Palmer & Dodge, LLP, Boston, MA, Arthur Wineburg, Atkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP, Washington, DC, for Amgen, Inc.

Allen Rines, Claire Laporte, Carla Miriam Levy, Donald R. Ware, Foley Hoag LLP, Boston, MA, for Biogen Idee Ma Inc.

Wayne M. Barsky, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Los Angeles, CA, David I. Gindler, Irell & Manella, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Scott McConchie, Griesinger, Tighe & Maffei, LLP, Boston, MA, Kevin S. Rosen, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles, CA, Jason Sheasby, Irell & Mandella LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Amanda Tessar, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Denver, CO, for Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.

Adrian M. Pruetz, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, John B. Quinn, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, Redwood Shores, CA, William Paul Schuck, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, San Francisco, CA, Robert W. Stone, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, Redwood Shores, CA, for Genentech, Inc.

Leora Ben-Ami, Patricia A. Carson, Kaye Scholer LLP, New York, NY, Eric J. Marandett, Elizabeth P. Wilkins, Choate, Hall & Stewart, Boston, MA, for Genetics Institute LLC and Wyeth.

Claire Laporte, Carla Miriam Levy, Donald R. Ware, Foley Hoag LLP, Boston, MA, for Genzyme Corp.

Eileen M. Herlihy, Palmer & Dodge, LLP, Boston, MA, Arthur Wineburg, Atkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP, Washington, DC, for Immunex Corp.

Jessica Golden Cortes, Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, New York, NY, Jeffrey I.D. Lewis, New York, NY, Melissa Mandrgoc, Steven A. Zalesin, Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, New York, NY, for Johnson & Johnson.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

WOLF, District Judge.

I. SUMMARY

The Trustees of the Columbia University in the City of New York ("Columbia") have moved to dismiss the declaratory judgment claims in these multidistrict litigation cases. Columbia alleges that its covenant not to sue the plaintiff drug companies on the claims of Patent No. 6,455,275 (the "'275 patent") as they now read extinguishes the constitutionally...

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