Anatomy Of A Patent Dispute: Purdue Pharma’s OxyContin Battle

Two years ago, Purdue Pharma's lawyers anxiously gathered together on a conference call. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit had just issued its second opinion in OxyContin patent litigation. But the court's earlier ruling had accidentally been posted online. For a tense 20 minutes they waited until one of Purdue's outside attorneys got the final decision