Legal Opinion
Biogen Idec MA Inc. v. TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY CITY OF NEW YORK
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided August 13, 2004No. 03-11329-MLWPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
WOLF, District Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
The plaintiffs in this case are drug companies. In 1993, plaintiff Biogen Idee MA Inc. (“Biogen”) licensed from the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (“Columbia”) all patents deriving from an application that Columbia filed in 1980 (the “Axel Patents”). In 1994, plaintiff Genzyme Corporation (“Genzyme”) obtained a similar license.
Biogen believed that all but one of the patents covered by its license expired in 2000, and that its obligation to pay royalties ended in the fall of 2002 when the last of the products…
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