Owner was entitled to declaration that claims of patent were not invalid

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Owner was entitled to declaration that claims of patent were not invalid

Plaintiff patent owner BPA and licensee B Inc. owned patent for micronized, uncoated, and rapidly dissolving oral contraceptive pill with low hormone dose. Defendant generic drug companies C Co. and A Inc. sold oral contraceptive pills with similar characteristics. Owner brought action for declaration of infringement by C Co. and A Inc. and related relief. C Co. and A Inc. brought counterclaims for declarations that claims were invalid. Action allowed; counterclaims dismissed. Claims were valid and infringed by C Co. and A Inc.. Owner was entitled to declaration that three claims of patent were not invalid based on grounds of obviousness, anticipation, overbreadth, insufficiency or ambiguity of specification, or inutility. Owner was entitled to declaration that three claims of patent had been infringed, either directly or by inducing infringement, by A Inc. and C Co.’s sale, importation, offering for sale and manufacture of their oral contraceptive pills. Owner was entitled to order enjoining A Inc. and C Co. from manufacturing, using, and selling oral contraceptive tablets that infringed claims. Owner was entitled to order directing A Inc. and C Co. to deliver up or destroy under oath, all articles that would offend injunction. Issue of damages or accounting of profits was to be heard in second phase of trial.
Bayer Inc. v. Cobalt Pharmaceuticals Co. (Sep. 7, 2016, F.C., Simon Fothergill J., T-1379-13, T-1468-13, T-1368-14) 270 A.C.W.S. (3d) 837.


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