Legal Opinion
AstraZeneca AB v. United Food & Commercial Workers Unions
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 21, 2015No. Nos. 14-1521, 14-1522PublishedCited by 175 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DYK, Circuit Judge.
AstraZeneca1 sells a heartburn drug called Nexium and owns several patents related to the Nexium compound, a method of using Nexium, and the process for manufacturing Nexium (“the Nexium patents”). Nexium is a proton-pump inhibitor, a type of drug that decreases the symptoms of heartburn by reducing gastric acid production.
Three generic drug companies, Ranbaxy,2 Teva,3 and DRL4 (collectively, the “generic defendants”), sought to market generic forms of Nexium. AstraZeneca sued these generic companies for infringement of some of the Nexium patents. AstraZeneca eventually…
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