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Fed. Cir.

BTG International Limited v. Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC, No. 19-1147 (Fed. Cir. May 14, 2019)

Affirmed in Part
Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Case No.
No. 19-1147
Also Docketed
No. 19-1148 (consolidated; same document)
Decided
May 14, 2019
Judge
Wallach, J.
Document
Precedential Opinion
Length
27 pages

From the Opinion

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Appellants BTG International Limited et al. (“Appel- lants”) sued Appellees Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC et al. BTG INTERNATIONAL LIMITED v. AMNEAL PHARMACEUTICALS LLC 6 (“Appellees”) in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (“District Court”), asserting that Appellees’ Ab- breviated New Drug Applications (“ANDA”) for the generic version of Appellants’ abiraterone product ZYTIGA® in- fringes claims 1–20 (“Asserted Claims”) of U.S. Patent No. 8,822,438 (“the ’438 patent”). Subsequently, Appellees Amerigen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.