Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Chas. Pfizer & Co., Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 16, 1955No. 15606_1PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JONES, Circuit Judge.
On January 11, 1955, United States Patent No. 2,699,054 covering an antibiotic entitled Tetracycline was issued to Chas. Pfizer & Co., Inc., herein called Pfizer. On the same date Pfizer instituted separate suits in the Atlanta Division of the United States -District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, against Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation, The Upjohn Company, and Bristol Laboratories Inc., who will be referred to herein, collectively, as the defendants, charging infringement of the patent.
A motion was filed in each of the cases by the respective defendants…
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