PFIZER, INC. v. PERRIGO CO.

No. 95 Civ. 5072(DC).

988 F.Supp. 686 (1997)

PFIZER INC., Plaintiff, v. PERRIGO COMPANY and L. Perrigo Company, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

December 19, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hopgood, Calimafde, Kalil & Judlowe by Stephen B. Judlowe, William G. Todd, Porter F. Fleming, Eve Kunen, Jason A. Lief, Scott J. Bornstein, New York City and Paul H. Ginsburg, Grover F. Fuller, Jr., Arthur A. Silverstein, Pfizer Inc., New York City, for plaintiff.

Carella, Byrne, Baine, Gilfillan, Cecchi, Stewart & Olstein by John G. Gilfillan III, Roseland, NJ, Price, Heneveld, Cooper, DeWitt & Litton by Randall G. Litton, James A. Mitchell, Harold W. Reick, Barry C. Kane, Grand Rapids, MI, Serchuck & Zelermyer by Wesley Chen, New York City, for defendants.


OPINION

CHIN, District Judge.

After a three-week trial in this case, the jury returned a verdict in favor of plaintiff Pfizer Inc. ("Pfizer") on its claim that defendants Perrigo Company and L. Perrigo Company (together, "Perrigo") infringed its patent no. 5,338,538 (the "'538 Patent") under the "doctrine of equivalents." The jury awarded Pfizer compensatory damages in the amount of $1,500,000. The jury also returned a verdict in favor of Perrigo...

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