GENEVA PHARMACEUTICALS TECHNOLOGY CORP. v. BARR LABS. INC.

Docket Nos. 02-9222, 02-9346.

386 F.3d 485 (2004)

GENEVA PHARMACEUTICALS TECHNOLOGY CORP., as successor in interest to Invamed, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellant, Apothecon, Inc., Consolidated-Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BARR LABORATORIES INC., Brantford Chemicals Inc., Bernard C. Sherman, Apotex Holdings, Inc., Apotex, Inc., Sherman Delaware, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided October 18, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wayne A. Cross, White & Case, New York, New York (Michael J. Gallagher, Brendan G. Woodard, White & Case LLP, New York, New York; Frederick R. Dettmer, Law Office of Frederick R. Dettmer, New York, New York; David S. Preminger, Rosen, Preminger & Bloom, New York, New York, of counsel), for Plaintiff-Appellant Geneva Pharmaceuticals Technology Corp.

Louis M. Solomon, New York, New York (Harry Frischer, Colin A. Underwood, Jennifer R. Scullion, Daniel J. Rothstein, Proskauer Rose LLP, New York, New York, of counsel), for Plaintiff-Appellant Apothecon, Inc.

Michael J. Gaertner, Chicago, Illinois (David G. Greene, Lord, Bissell & Brook, Chicago, Illinois, of counsel), for Defendants-Appellees Brantford Chemicals Inc., Bernard C. Sherman, Apotex Holdings Inc., Apotex Inc., Sherman Delaware, Inc.

Kurt L. Schultz, New York, New York (Alan B. Howard, Winston & Strawn, New York, New York, of counsel), for Defendant-Appellee Barr Laboratories, Inc.

Before: CARDAMONE, SACK, and JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judges.


CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:

This civil antitrust action was instituted by plaintiffs-appellants Apothecon, Inc. and Geneva Pharmaceuticals Technology Corp., which manufacture and distribute a generic form of warfarin sodium, an anti-coagulant medication (a blood thinner). The suit was brought under §§ 1 and 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1 and § 2 (2000). Those sections make it unlawful to enter into a contract, combination, or conspiracy...

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