Legal Opinion
In Re Eli Lilly & Co.(cephalexin Monohydrate)
United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
Decided February 28, 1978No. 326PublishedCited by 234 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
2Per curiam
This litigation consists of three actions, each of which is pending in one of three districts: the Southern District of Florida, the District of New Jersey, or the Southern District of New York.
Zenith Laboratories, Inc. (Zenith) distributes an oral antibiotic known as cephalexin monohydrate. Zenith’s complaint in the New Jersey action seeks a declaratory judgment against Eli Lilly and Co. (Lilly) to the effect that two Lilly patents on pharmaceutical substances are invalid and unenforceable and that Zenith’s antibiotic does not infringe upon them. Lilly has counterclaimed in…
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