Legal Opinion
In Re Buspirone Patent Litigation
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided February 14, 2002No. MDL Docket 1410PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion and Order No. 19
KOELTL, District Judge.
(Motion to Dismiss Antitrust and Related State Law Claims)
On August 15, 2001, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation consolidated for pre-trial purposes before this Court four patent disputes, which had been consolidated under MDL-1410, and twenty-two antitrust actions, which had been consolidated under MDL-1413, all of which involve disputes among the various parties over the propriety of the manufacture, use, sale or allegedly anticompetitive conduct related to the use and sale of buspirone, 1 a drug used to treat anxiety. The Panel has…
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