Legal Opinion
SmithKline Beecham Corp. v. Pentech Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided May 8, 2003No. 00 C 2855PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION *
RICHARD A. POSNER, Circuit Judge, Sitting by Designation.
These consolidated patent infringement suits were assigned to me under the authority of 28 U.S.C. § 291(b) because of their close relation to a previous patent infringement suit that had been assigned to and tried by me, SmithKline Beecham Corp. v. Apotex Corp., 247 F.Supp.2d 1011 (N.D.Ill.2003), involving the identical plaintiffs and the identical patent. The patent (U.S. patent 4,721,723 — “723” for short) is for crystalline paroxetine hydrochloride hemihydrate, a pharmaceutical compound that the plaintiffs (two affiliated…
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