Legal Opinion
Chiron Corp. v. Genentech, Inc.
District Court, E.D. California
Decided April 22, 2002No. CIV.S-00-1252 WBS GGPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
SHUBB, District Judge.
In this lawsuit, Chiron alleges that Gen-entech’s product, Herceptin, infringes Chi-ron’s United States Patent No. 6,054,561 (“ ’561 patent”). The court is now called upon to construe the terms of ’561 patent. See Markman v. Westview Instruments, Inc., 52 F.3d 967, 968 (Fed.Cir.1995) (en banc), aff'd, 517 U.S. 370, 116 S.Ct. 1384, 134 L.Ed.2d 577 (1996).
I. Factual and Procedural Background
The ’561 patent issued on April 25, 2000 from a long line of patents and patent applications dating back to February 8, 1984 and January 11,1985. Generally, the…
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