Opinion ID: 788070
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Exclusive Arrangement Between Barr and ACIC/Brantford

Text: 15 In September 1995 the defendants entered into an exclusive supply agreement pursuant to which ACIC/Brantford would supply Barr with clathrate. The agreement obligated Barr to purchase $1.8 million worth of clathrate. It also provided that ACIC/Brantford would supply Barr exclusively with commercial quantities of clathrate until another manufacturer began selling generic warfarin sodium. Barr agreed to purchase 100 percent of its supply from ACIC/Brantford during the exclusivity period. One week after they entered into the supply agreement, the defendants executed a confidentiality agreement that for five years prohibited either party from disclosing valuable, proprietary, technical, commercial and other confidential information. 16 This agreement only covered commercial quantities of clathrate. Hence, it did not prohibit ACIC/Brantford from selling small samples or developmental quantities, or from acting as a broker between manufacturers and other suppliers. The agreement also permitted Barr to purchase small quantities of clathrate from other sources in order to qualify that supplier as an alternate source.