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Fed. Cir.

Shire LLC v. Amneal Pharmaceuticals, LLC, No. 14-1736 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 24, 2015)

Affirmed in Part
Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Case No.
No. 14-1736
Also Docketed
No. 14-1737, No. 14-1738, No. 14-1739, No. 14-1740, No. 14-1741 (consolidated; same document)
Decided
September 24, 2015
Judge
Linn, J.
Document
Precedential Opinion
Length
16 pages

From the Opinion

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In this consolidated Hatch-Waxman Act litigation, Amneal Pharmaceuticals, LLC, Actavis Elizabeth LLC , Actavis LLC, Mylan Inc. , Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc., Roxane Laboratories, Inc., Sandoz Inc. (collectively the “ANDA defendants”) and Johnson Matthey Pharmaceut i- cal Materials (“Johnson Ma tthey”) (collectively, “defen d- ants”) appeal the district court’s decision in Shire, LLC v. Amneal Pharmaceuticals, LLC , No. 11 -3781, 2014 WL 2861430 ( D.N.J. June 23, 2014) (“Op.”), granting Shire LLC, Shire Development Inc.