ALPHARMA, INC. v. PURDUE PHARMA L.P.

No. 1:08CV00050.

634 F.Supp.2d 626 (2009)

ALPHARMA, INC., Plaintiff, v. PURDUE PHARMA L.P., Defendant.

United States District Court, W.D. Virginia, Abingdon Division.

July 9, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark T. Hurt, Abingdon, VA, and Thomas G. Slater, Jr., Hunton & Williams LLP, Richmond, VA, Roger L. Tate and Robert M. Schulman, Hunton & Williams LLP, Washington, D.C., and David A. Kelly, Hunton & Williams LLP, Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiff.

Wm. W. Eskridge and Wade W. Massie, Penn, Stuart & Eskridge, Abingdon, VA, and Gerald Sobel, Aaron Stiefel, and David S. Copeland, Kaye Scholer LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant.


OPINION AND ORDER

JAMES P. JONES, Chief Judge.

In this patent case, I will deny the defendant's motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction or, alternatively, to transfer venue.

I

The plaintiff, Alpharma Inc., has developed a new prescription drug and hopes to bring it to market soon. To clear its path, it asks this court to declare several of the defendant's patents invalid...

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