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IN RE CIPRO CASES I & II

No. S198616.

61 Cal.4th 116 (2015)

187 Cal. Rptr. 3d 632

348 P.3d 845

IN RE CIPRO CASES I & II.

Supreme Court of California.

May 7, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, Eric B. Fastiff,   Brendan Glackin,   Jordan Elias,   Dean M. Harvey ; Joseph Saveri Law Firm, Joseph R. Saveri,   Lisa J. Leebove ; Krause, Kalfayan, Benink & Slavens, Ralph B. Kalfayan ; Zwerling, Schachter & Zwerling, Dan Drachler ; Durie Tangri and Mark A. Lemley for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

The Kralowec Law Group and Kimberly A. Kralowec for Consumer Attorneys of California as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Michael A. Carrier ; Zelle Hofmann Voelbel & Mason and Judith A. Zahid for 49 Professors as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Mark A. Lemley for 78 Intellectual Property Law, Antitrust Law, Economics and Business Professors as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Richard M. Brunell ; Zelle Hofmann Voelbel & Mason and Judith A. Zahid for American Antitrust Institute as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Edleson & Rezzo, Joann F. Rezzo ; Karcher Harmes, Kathryn E. Karcher ; Stinson Morrison Hecker, Stinson Leonard Street, David E. Everson,   Heather S. Woodson and Victoria L. Smith for Defendants and Respondents Hoechst Marion Roussel, Inc., The Rugby Group, Inc., and Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps, McKenna Long & Aldridge, Charles A. Bird,   Christopher J. Healey,   Todd R. Kinnear ; Jones Day, Kevin D. McDonald ; Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Schott and Peter B. Bensinger, Jr., for Defendant and Respondent Bayer Corporation.

Kirkland & Ellis, Jay P. Lefkowitz,   Edwin John U,   Karen N. Walker and Gregory L. Skidmore for Defendant and Respondent Barr Laboratories, Inc.

Richard A. Samp,   Cory L. Andrews ; Law Offices of Mark E. Foster and Mark E. Foster for Washington Legal Foundation as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.

Munger, Tolles & Olson, Jeffrey I. Weinberger,   Adam R. Lawton,   Guha Krishnamurthi,   Rohit K. Singla and Michelle T. Friedland for The Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.

Stevens & Lee, Joseph Wolfson ; Duane Morris and Paul J. Killion for Generic Pharmaceutical Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.

Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Edward C. DuMont, State Solicitor General, Kathleen E. Foote, Assistant Attorney General, Janill L. Richards, Deputy State Solicitor General, and Cheryl L. Johnson, Deputy Attorney General, for California Attorney General, as Amicus Curiae.

OPINION

To protect competition in the marketplace, antitrust law prohibits agreements that create or perpetuate monopolies. Patent law, in contrast, grants temporary monopolies to inventors to encourage the development of useful innovations. We consider here a crucial question at the intersection of these two bodies...

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