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Nature of Suit Code: 830
Nature of Suit: Patent
Cause of Action: 35:271 Patent Infringement

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ALZHEIMER'S INSTITUTE OF 

AMERICA,

Plaintiff,

v.

ELI LILLY & COMPANY, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 10-cv-00482-EDL 

ORDER

In this Court’s June 5, 2015 order on Defendants’ motions for attorneys’ fees, the Court 

ordered the Parties to file the Special Master’s report in Alzheimer’s Institute of America, Inc. v. 

Avid Radiopharmaceuticals, Case No. 10-cv-6908 (E.D. Pa.) (“Avid”), once it is available. 

Defendants’ motions concerning the amount and reasonableness of their requested attorneys’ fees 

awards are currently under submission. In his report and recommendation, Special Master Gene 

Cohen states that Avid Radiopharmaceuticals (“Avid”) “was extravagant in the employment of 

legal resources to mount its defense . . . no expense was spared” and that Avid sent “a large force 

to do what a much smaller unit would be capable of accomplishing.” (Dkt. 396-1 at 7.) The 

Special Master ultimately recommends awarding Avid $2,923,901.61 less than the requested

amount of $6,867,219.31 in fees. (Id. at 22.) Both the plaintiff and defendant Avid in Avid have 

filed objections to the Special Master’s recommendations, which are currently pending before the 

Avid court. In light of the pendency of those objections, the Parties are ordered to file a joint letter 

of no more than five pages addressing the potential impact on this case of the Avid court’s ruling 

on those objections and whether this Court should await that ruling before issuing its own fee 

determination by March 7, 2016. Additionally, Defendants may file a separate joint letter of no 

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more than four pages responding to Plaintiff’s arguments concerning the Special Master’s report

by March 7, 2016. (See Dkt. 397.)

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated:

ELIZABETH D. LAPORTE

United States Magistrate Judge

February 22, 2016

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