Legal Opinion
Merck & Co., Inc. v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided August 24, 1998No. Civil Action 97-CV-4241PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
EDUARDO C. ROBRENO, District Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
This is an action brought by plaintiff Merck Pharmaceuticals against defendant Mylan Pharmaceuticals for patent infringement of its SINEMET CR tablets, designed for use in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. Merck alleges that, under the well-established patent law doctrine of equivalents, Mylan’s filing of an Abbreviated New Drug Application (“ANDA”) with the Food and Drug Administration, setting forth a generic formulation of Merck’s products infringed upon United States Patents No. 4,832,957 (the “ ’957 patent”) and No.…
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