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MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY v. NOVARTIS OPHTHALMICS

No. CIV.A. 01-10747-EFH.

345 F.Supp.2d 133 (2004)

MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY, Plaintiff v. NOVARTIS OPHTHALMICS, INC. and QLT, Inc., Defendants QLT, Inc., Counterclaimant v. Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Evangelos S. Gragoudas, M.D., and Joan W. Miller, M.D., Counterdefendants. The General Hospital Corporation, Intervenor v. Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Evangelos S. Gragoudas, M.D., and Joan W. Miller, M.D., Defendants to Intervenor's Complaint.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

November 23, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anthony A. Pastor, Bindu Donovan, James F. Haley, Jr., Karen Mangasarian, Krista M. Rygroft, Fish & Neave LLP, New York, NY, Christine M. Roach, Roach & Carpenter, P.C., Boston, MA, Douglas J. Kline, Erica B. Abate Recht, John J. Cotter, Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP, Boston, MA, J. Patrick Kennedy, Bulkley, Richardson & Gelinas LLP, Boston, MA, for Massachusetts Eye And Ear Infirmary, Evangelos S. Gragoudas, Joan W. Miller, Plaintiffs.

Adam R. Gahtan, Denise D. Taliaferro, Dimitrios T. Drivas, James S. Trainor, Jeffrey J. Oelke, White & Case, LLP, New York, NY, Juliet A. Davidson, Julie E. Green, Todd & Weld, LLP, Boston, MA, for Novartis Ophthalmics, Inc.

Barbara A. Fiacco, Denise W. DeFranco, Donald R. Ware, Mark A Reilly, Sarah E. Cooleybeck, Foley Hoag LLP, Boston, MA, for QLT, Inc., Defendants.

Eric J. Marandett, Wendy S. Plotkin, Choate, Hall & Stewart, Boston, MA, for Eyetech Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

HARRINGTON, Senior District Judge.

The Defendants QLT, Inc. and The General Hospital Corporation have filed a motion to correct inventorship of the '303 patent pursuant to Title 35, United States Code, Section 256. Section 116 of Title 35 provides that a patented invention may be the work of two or more joint inventors. See Ethicon, Inc. v. U.S. Surgical Corp., 135 F.3d 1456, 1460 (Fed...

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