Pfizer Inc. v. International Rectifier Corp.

OPINION AND ORDER

PER CURIAM'.

Pfizer recently filed an action in the Central District of California against International Rectifier and several of its wholly owned subsidiaries and U.S.V. Pharmaceutical Corp. charging them with infringement of Pfizer’s patent on doxycycline, a broad spectrum antibiotic sold under the trademark Vibramycin. Defendants move the Panel for an order transferring this action for inclusion in the coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings in this litigation before Judge Miles W. Lord in the District of Minnesota. On the basis of the papers filed and the hearing…