INVERNESS MEDICAL SWITZERLAND v. ACON LABORATORIES

No. CIV.A. 03-11323 PBS.

367 F.Supp.2d 182 (2005)

INVERNESS MEDICAL SWITZERLAND GmbH, Unipath Diagnostics, Inc., and Church & Dwight Co., Inc. Plaintiffs, v. ACON LABORATORIES, INC., Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

April 29, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy C. Blank, Dechert LLP, Boston, MA, Baldassare Vinti, James H. Shalek, Proskauer Rose LLP, Boston, MA, John C. Stellabotte, Proskauer Rose LLP, New York, NY, for Armkel LLC, Defendant.

Peng Chen, Steven Emerson Comer, David Clarence Doyle, Brett D. Ekins, Brian M. Kramer, Mark A. Woodmansee, Morrison & Foerster, LLP, San Diego, CA, Joan M. Griffin, Daniel P. McCarthy, Michael P. Twohig, Perkins, Smith & Cohen, LLP, Boston, MA, Jose Luis Patino, Morrison & Foerster, LLP, San Diego, CA, for Acon Laboratories, In, Defendant.

J. Anthony Downs, Goodwin Procter, LLP, Boston, MA, for Medical Switzerland GmbH, Unipath Diagnostics, Inc., Church & Dwight, Inc., Plaintiffs.

Anastasia M. Fernands, Paul F. Ware, Goodwin Procter LLP, Boston, MA, for Inverness Medical Switzerland GmbH, Unipath Diagnostics, Inc., Plaintiffs.

Lana S. Shiferman, Goodwin Procter LLP, Boston, MA, for Inverness Medical Switzerland GmbH, Unipath Diagnostics, Inc., Plaintiffs.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

SARIS, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

Defendant Acon Laboratories, Inc. ("Acon") defends a patent infringement suit1 by plaintiffs Inverness Medical Switzerland GmbH, Unipath Diagnostics, Inc., and Church & Dwight Co., Inc. ("Inverness") by claiming, inter alia, that claims 7 and 19 of U.S. Patent No. 6,485,982 ("the '982 patent") are invalid for failure to meet the written description...

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