AMGEN, INC. v. F. HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE LTD.

No. CIV.A. 05-12237-WGY.

480 F.Supp.2d 462 (2007)

AMGEN, INC., Plaintiff, v. F. HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE LTD., a Swiss Company, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, a German Company and Hoffmann La Roche Inc., a New Jersey Corporation Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

March 30, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter M. Acton, Nicole A. Colby, Daniel A. Curto, James M. Fraser, Michael Kendall, Dana M. McSherry, Joshua A. Munn, McDermott, Will & Emery LLP, Boston, MA, Firasat Ali, Mary Boyle, Andrew Kumamoto, McDermott Will & Emery, Palo Alto, CA, D. Dennis Allegretti, Michael R. Gottfried, Duane Morris LLP, Boston, MA, Michael F. Borun, Marshall, O'Toole, Gerstein, Murray & Borun, Chicago, IL, Krista M. Carter, Andy H. Chan, Renee DuBord Brown, Adam Arthur Bier, Lloyd R. Day, Robert M. Galvin, Geoffrey M. Godfrey, Berrie R. Goldman, Aaron R. Hand, Susan M. Krumplitsch, David M. Madrid, Deborah E. Fishman, Jonathan D. Loeb, Mario Moore, Darcy A. Paul, Linda Sasaki-Baxley, Katie J.L. Scott, Rebecca J. Wais, Day Casebeer Madrid & Batchelder, LLP, Cupertino, CA, William Diaz, McDermott Will & Emery LLP, Irvine, CA, Darrell G. Dotson, Mary Susan Howard, Kimberlin L. Morely, Erica S. Olson, Monique L. Corday, Stuart L. Watt, Wendy A. Whiteford, Amgen Inc, Thousand Oaks, CA, Jon B. Dubrow, Raymond A. Jacobsen, McDermott Will & Emery LLP, Washington, DC, Jennifer E. Flory, Kevin M Flowers, Mark Izraelwicz, Cullen N. Pendleton, Jeremy D. Protas, Sandip H. Patel, Matthew C. Nielsen, Thomas I. Ross, Marshall Gerstein & Borun, Chicago, IL, William G. Gaede, III, Michelle E. Moreland, McDermott, Will & Emery LLP, Palo Alto, CA, Michael R. Gottfried, Duane Morris LLP, Boston, MA, Julia Huston, Bromberg & Sunstein LLP, Boston, MA, Dana M. McSherry, McDermott, Will & Emery LLP, Boston, MA, Patricia R. Rich, Duane Morris LLP, Boston, MA, for Amgen Inc., Plaintiff.

Leora Ben-Ami, Patricia A. Carson, Monica Contreras, Richard A. De Sevo, Vladimir Drozdoff, Thomas F. Fleming, Peter Fratangelo, Alfred H. Heckel, Manvin Mayen, Matthew McFarlane, Howard Suh, Jeanna Wacker, Kaye Scholer LLP, New York, NY, Julian Brew, Kaye Scholer LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Lee C. Bromberg, Bromberg & Sunstein LLP, Boston, MA, David L. Cousineau, Mark S. Popofsky, Kaye Scholer LLC, Washington, DC, Nancy DiLella, George W. Johnston, Patricia Rocha-Tramaloni, Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., Law Department, Nutley, NJ, Nicole A. Rizzo, Keith E. Toms, Robert L. Kann, Bromberg & Sunstein LLP, Boston, MA, for F. Hoffmann-LaRoche LTD, Hoffmann LaRoche Inc., Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Defendants.

Heather B. Repicky, David L. Ferrera, Michelle Chassereau, Nutter, McClennen & Fish, LLP, Boston, MA, Steven A. Zalesin, Eugene M. Gelernter, Erik Haas, Richard 0. Jackson, Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler LLP, New York, NY, for Ortho Biotech Products, L.P., Intervenor Plaintiff.

Mark J. Hebert, Fish & Richardson, P.C., Boston, MA, for Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc. (FMC), Movant.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

YOUNG, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

Amgen, Inc. ("Amgen") initiated this action against F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., Roche Diagnostics. GmbH, and Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. (collectively "Roche/Hoffmann") seeking a declaratory judgment that Roche/Hoffniann currently infringes or will infringe Amgen's patents for erythropoietin ("EPO"). The patents at issue are U...

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