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Allergan Sales, LLC v. Sandoz, Inc., et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, No. 17-1499, 17-1500, 17-1558, 17-1559 · judgment December 22, 2017


Certiorari denied · October 1, 2018
Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Questions presented

  1. Whether the Federal Circuit may ignore a factual stipulation, contrary to this Court’s precedent, and decisions of numerous circuit courts, holding that factual stipulations are binding?

  2. Whether the Federal Circuit’s finding of noninfringement by ignoring a factual stipulation should, at a minimum, be vacated because it did not mention the stipulation or address Allergan’s arguments that the stipulation was binding, even though it was Allergan’s lead argument on appeal?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Jonathan E. Singer
Fish & Richardson, P.C., P.A.

For respondent
John Caviness O'Quinn
Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Linked docket
17A1391

Proceedings

  1. Oct 01 2018
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Aug 08 2018
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/24/2018.
  3. Aug 02 2018
    Waiver of right of respondents Sandoz Inc., Alcon Laboratories, Inc., and Alcon Research, Ltd. to respond filed.
  4. Jun 29 2018
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 2, 2018)
  5. Jun 22 2018
    Application (17A1391) granted by The Chief Justice extending the time to file until June 29, 2018.
  6. Jun 20 2018
    Application (17A1391) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from June 26, 2018 to July 26, 2018, submitted to The Chief Justice.