Legal Opinion
Cipher Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. Actavis Laboratories FL, Inc.
District Court, D. New Jersey
Decided April 20, 2015No. Civil No. 13-6502 (JEI/AMD)PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
IRENAS, Senior District Judge.
This is a patent infringement suit. The Court conducted a Markman hearing on April 2, 2015, which included extensive testimony from the parties’ expert witnesses. This opinion construes the five remaining disputed terms1 of the two related patents, the '427 patent2 and the '102 patent3 ,both of which disclose a “pharmaceutical semi-solid composition of isotretinoin,” commercially known as the prescription drug Absorica.
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According to Plaintiffs, Absorica is an improvement on the well-known acne drug, Accutane, which is another formulation of isotretinoin.4
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2Cases cited15 opinions
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- Edward H. Phillips v. Awh Corporation, Hopeman Brothers, Inc., and Lofton Corporation, Defendants-CrossCourt of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 2006
- Herbert Markman and Positek, Inc. v. Westview Instruments, Inc. And Althon Enterprises, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 1995
- Vitronics Corporation v. Conceptronic, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 1996
- Nautilus, Inc. v. Biosig Instruments, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 2014
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3Cited by6 opinions
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