Legal Opinion
Trustees of Columbia University v. Roche Diagnostics GmbH
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided April 27, 2001No. C.A. 93-11512-NGPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
GERTNER, District Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
This case involves an allegation by plaintiff Columbia University (“Columbia”) of patent infringement against defendant Roche Diagnostics GmbH (formerly Boeh-ringer Mannheim, GmbH) (“Roche”), a multinational pharmaceutical corporation having its principal place of business in Mannheim, Germany. In essence, Columbia claims that Roche induced or otherwise collaborated with Genetics Institute (“GI”), a United States company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to produce the drug Erythropoietin (“EPO”) 1 using meth ods and products for…
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