Legal Opinion
Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Eli Lilly and Company
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 31, 2011No. 11-55939UnpublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM **
In 2002, Plaintiff-Appellant Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Amylin”), formed an alliance with Defendant-Appellee Eli Lilly and Co. (“Lilly”) to jointly market Amylin’s diabetes drug, exenatide. In 2005, Amylin received approval from the FDA to market exenatide as Byetta, and Amylin and Lilly began promoting Byet-ta pursuant to their agreement. In 2011, Lilly announced that it was entering into another alliance with Boehringer Ingel-heim GmbH (“BI”), to market BI’s diabetes drug, Tradjenta. Amylin demanded that Lilly use a separate sales force to market Tradjenta rather than the…
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