G.D. SEARLE LLC v. LUPIN PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.

No. 2014-1476.

790 F.3d 1349 (2015)

G.D. SEARLE LLC, Pfizer Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd., Plaintiffs-Appellants v. LUPIN PHARMACEUTICALS, INC., Defendant-Appellee Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., Defendant-Appellee Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc., Defendant-Appellee Watson Laboratories, Inc., Defendant Apotex Inc., Apotex Corp., Defendants-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

June 23, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kannon K. Shanmugam , Williams & Connolly LLP, Washington, DC, argued for plaintiffs-appellants. Also represented by Allison B. Jones, David M. Krinsky, Christopher Alan Suarez; Aaron Stiefel, Soumitra Deka, Daniel Reisner, Jeffrey T. Martin, Daniel Dinapoli, Kaye Scholer LLP, New York, N.Y.

Beth D. Jacob , Kelley Drye & Warren, LLP, New York, N.Y., argued for defendant-appellee Lupin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Also represented by Clifford Katz; Douglass C. Hochstetler, Chicago, IL.

Henry C. Dinger , Goodwin Procter LLP, Boston, MA, argued for defendant-appellee Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. Also represented by Keith A. Zullow, David M. Hashmall, New York, N.Y.; William M. Jay, Washington, DC.

Douglas H. Carsten , Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati, PC, San Diego, CA, argued for defendant-appellee Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. Also represented by Peter Soo Kang; Nancy L. Zhang, Palo Alto, CA.

Stephen Auten , Taft, Stettinius & Hollister, LLP, Chicago, IL, argued for defendants-appellees Apotex Inc., Apotex Corp. Also represented by Ian Scott, Richard T. Ruzich; Richard Hooper Ottinger, Vandeventer Black LLP, Norfolk, VA.

Before PROST, Chief Judge, BRYSON and HUGHES, Circuit Judges.


G.D. Searle LLC and Pfizer Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. (collectively, "Pfizer") appeal from a final judgment entered by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The court invalidated the relevant claims of Pfizer's reissued U.S. Patent No. RE44,048 ("the RE '048 patent") for obviousness-type double...

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