In re Cipro Cases 10/31/11 CA4/1

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State: California

Court: California Eastern District Court

Docket No: D056361A

Case Date: 10/31/2011

Preview:10/31/11 (reposted 10/31/11 to add omitted footnote text enumerating nine coordinated cases)

CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION COURT OF APPEAL, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT DIVISION ONE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

IN RE CIPRO CASES I & II

D056361 (JCCP Nos. 4154 & 4220) [Nine coordinated cases*]

APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of San Diego County, Richard E. L. Strauss, Judge. Affirmed. Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, Joseph R. Saveri, Eric B. Fastiff, Brendan Glackin, Jordan Elias, Dean M. Harvey; Krause, Kalfayan, Benink & Slavens, Ralph B. Kalfayan; Zwerling, Schachter & Zwerling and Dan Drachler for Plaintiffs and Appellants. Mark A. Lemley for 78 Law, Economics, Business and Public Policy Professors as Amici Curiae on behalf or Plaintiffs and Appellants.

* McGaughey v. Bayer Corporation (Super. Ct. San Diego County, No. GIC752290); Relles v. Bayer Corporation (Super. Ct. L.A. County, No. BC239083); Samole v. Bayer AG (Super. Ct. S.F. City and County, No. 316349 ); Garber v. Bayer AG (Super. Ct. S.F. City and County, No. 316518); Lee v. Bayer AG (Super. Ct. S.F. City and County, No. 316670); Patane v. Bayer AG (Super. Ct. S.F. City and County, No. 318457); Moore v. Bayer Corporation (Super. Ct. Sonoma County, No. SCZ228356); Moore v. Bayer Corporation (Super. Ct. Sonoma County, No. 228384); Senior Action Network v. Bayer AG (Super. Ct. S.F. City and County, No. 400750).

Edleson & Rezzo, Joann F. Rezzo; and Kathryn E. Karcher for Defendants and Respondents. Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps, Charles A. Bird, Christopher J. Healey, Todd R. Kinnear; Jones Day, Kevin D. McDonald; Bartlit Beck Herman Palencher & Schott and Peter B. Bensinger, Jr., for Defendant and Respondent Bayer Corporation. Stinson, Morrison, Hecker, David E. Everson, Heather S. Woodson and Victoria Smith for Defendants and Respondents Hoechst Marion Roussel, Inc., The Rugby Group, Inc., and Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Kirkland and Ellis, Edwin John U, Karen N. Walker, and Gregory Skidmore for Defendant and Respondent Barr Laboratories, Inc. The plaintiffs in this coordinated class action proceeding sued brand-name drug manufacturer Bayer AG and its subsidiary Bayer Corporation (collectively Bayer); generic drug manufacturers Barr Laboratories, Inc. (Barr), Hoechst Marion Roussel, Inc. (HMR), and HMR's former subsidiary The Rugby Group, Inc. (Rugby) (collectively the generic defendants); and Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Watson), which purchased Rugby from HMR. Bayer manufactures and markets Cipro, the brand name for ciprofloxacin hydrochloride (ciprofloxacin), an antibiotic prescribed for the treatment of infections. Bayer owned U.S. Patent No. 4,670,444 (the '444 patent), which claimed the ciprofloxacin hydrochloride molecule, until the patent expired in December 2003. Plaintiffs asserted causes of action against all defendants for violation of the Cartwright Act (Bus. & Prof. Code,

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