Legal Opinion
De Simone v. VSL Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
District Court, D. Maryland
Decided September 23, 2015No. Civil Action No. TDC-15-1356PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
THEODORE D. CHUANG, District Judge.
At issue in this case is the ownership and use of various intellectual property related to the probiotic VSL# 3. That product was originally brought to the United States market through the collaboration of Plaintiff Claudio De Simone (“De Simone”), who patented the formulation, VSL Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“VSL”), which sold the probiotic, and Sigma-Tau Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Sigma-Tau”), which marketed it. In 2014, after serving for over a decade as VSL’s Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”), De Simone stepped down. The parting was not amicable.…
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