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ABBOTT LABORATORIES v. APOTEX, INC.

No. 97 C 7515.

455 F.Supp.2d 831 (2006)

ABBOTT LABORATORIES, Plaintiff, v. APOTEX, INC. and Apotex Corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division.

October 6, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel E. Reidy, James R. Daly, Jason G. Winchester, Robert C. Micheletto, Jones Day, Thomas David Brooks, Sperling & Slater, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff.

Hugh L. Moore, Keith D. Parr, Scott B. Feder, Kevin Michael Nelson, Lord Bissell & Brook, Deanne M. Mazzochi, Paul J. Molino, William Andrew Rakoczy, Rakoczy Molino Mazzochi LLP, Richard Philip Beem, Beem Patent Law Firm, Chicago, IL, for Defendants.

OPINION

RICHARD A. POSNER, Circuit Judge, sitting by designation.

In 1997, Abbott Laboratories filed this suit for patent infringement against TorPharm, Inc., a manufacturer of generic pharmaceutical drugs, and affiliates of TorPharm, notably Apotex, Inc., its parent. (TorPharm has since been absorbed into its parent, so I have dropped it from the caption and throughout this opinion refer to TorPharm as Apotex.) The district judge initially assigned to the...

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