Whatever you say, don't say 'New Zealand' in a Brooklyn courtroom.
By Stuart Soffer • March 8, 2007 at 10:01 am
A recent order on 2/26/2007 in Apotex v. EON Labs (NYEDC 1-cv-00482) presents a fly-on-the-wallpaper view of a patent case that should have terminated much earlier than it did. In substantive issues, the patent in suit was found invalid since the applicant filed a similar application in New Zealand more than one year before filing the US counterpart. This issue was discovered and raised during the bench trial, much to everyone’s surprise. Whereupon Judge Cohn said, “Tell me about New Zealand. Read more » about Whatever you say, don't say 'New Zealand' in a Brooklyn courtroom.
