In re NEXIUM ANTITRUST LITIGATION.
AstraZeneca AB, et al., Defendants-Appellants,
v.
United Food and Commercial Workers Unions and Employers Midwest Health Benefits Fund, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees.
United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
January 21, 2015.
January 21, 2015.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Kannon K. Shanmugam, with whom Dane H. Butswinkas, Paul B. Gaffney, John E. Schmidtlein, Williams & Connolly LLP, Laurence A. Schoen, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., Jay P. Lefkowitz, Karen N. Walker, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Kevin D. McDonald, Jonathan Berman, Jones Day, Timothy C. Hester, Covington & Burling LLP, Michael P. Kelly, William A. Zucker, McCarter & English, LLP, Leslie F. Su, Minerva Law, P.C., J. Douglas Baldridge, Lisa Jose Fales, Danielle R. Foley, Sarah Choi, and Venable LLP were on brief, for defendants-appellants.
Kenneth A. Wexler, with whom Wexler Wallace LLP, Steve D. Shadowen, Hillard & Shadowen LLC, J. Douglas Richards, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, PLLC, Jayne A. Goldstein, Pomerantz Grossman Hufford, Dahlstrom & Gross LLP, Glen DeValerio, and Berman DeValerio were on brief, for plaintiffs-appellees.
Kathryn Comerfold Todd, Tyler R. Green, National Chamber Litigation Center, Inc., Jeffrey S. Bucholtz, Ashley C. Parrish, Karen F. Grohman, and King & Spaulding LLP, on brief for Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, as amicus curiae in support of defendants-appellants.
Daniel E. Gustafson, Gustafson Gluek PLLC, Prof. Joshua P. Davis, Albert A. Foer, Richard Brunell, and Randy M. Stutz, on brief for American Antitrust Institute, as amicus curiae in support of plaintiffs-appellees.
Ellen Meriwether, Cafferty Clobes Meriwether & Sprengel, LLP, and David A. Balto, on brief for Community Catalyst, Inc., National Legislative Association for Prescription Drug Prices, United States Public Interest Research Group, and American Independent Business Alliance, as amici curiae in support of plaintiffs-appellees.
Scott L. Nelson and Julie A. Murray, on brief for Public Citizen Litigation Group, as amicus curiae in support of plaintiffs-appellees.
Before TORRUELLA, DYK, and KAYATTA, Circuit Judges.
DYK, Circuit Judge.
AstraZeneca1 sells a heartburn drug called Nexium and owns several patents related to the Nexium compound, a method of using Nexium, and the process for manufacturing Nexium ("the Nexium patents"). Nexium is a proton-pump inhibitor, a type of drug that decreases the symptoms of heartburn by reducing...
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