Holding that a court will not grant a preliminary injunction unless the plaintiff first makes a "clear showing" that he will suffer irreparable injury without it, and that the harm "must be neither remote nor speculative, but actual and imminent"
Holding "a preliminary injunction is to protect the status quo and to prevent irreparable harm during the pendency of a lawsuit ultimately to preserve the court's ability to render a meaningful judgment on the merits."
Holding that when survey questions are leading and suggestive, this "weaken the relevance and credibility of the survey evidence to the point that it sheds no light on the critical question in case."
Holding that "if a decided imbalance of hardship should appear in plaintiff's favor, then the likelihood-of-success test is displaced by Judge Jerome Frank's famous formulation. . . ."
Holding that to establish irreparable harm the movant must "substantiate the claim that irreparable injury is 'likely' to occur. . . . Bare allegations of what is likely to occur are of no value."
Holding that the phrase "Intelligence Everywhere" was not used as a mark in part because the word mark was used in "limited, sporadic, and inconsistent" ways
21 U.S.C. § 355 Cited 2,245 times 337 Legal Analyses
Granting the court discretion to change the date on which an ANDA may be approved if "either party to the action failed to reasonably cooperate in expediting the action"
21 C.F.R. § 314.107 Cited 66 times 13 Legal Analyses
Expanding Paragraph IV certification to include "unenforceability" defense in addition to the invalidity and noninfringement defenses stated in 21 U.S.C. § 355(j), because unenforceability is a recognized reason why a generic drug product would not violate a patent holder's rights