Mission Pharmacal Sues Puretek

Mission Pharmacal Sues
Puretek

On Friday, September 28, 2012, Mission Pharmacal Company (plaintiff) recorded a suit against Puretek Corporation (defendant) in the U.S District Court of Western Texas for patent infringement (case no. 5:12-cv-00920).

Mission Pharmacal is a Texas based company with R&D facilities. They are in the
business of manufacturing wide range of prescription medications and over-the-counter
products in four expanding therapeutic areas as women’s health, urology, pediatrics, and dermatology. PureTek are in the business of manufacturing quality bulk and private label items for some of the largest retail chains.

The patent US6521247 involved in this suit is currently assigned (source: Maxval’s assignment Database*) to Mission Pharmacal and titled Dual iron containing nutritional supplement was issued on February 18, 2003 and expires on March 31, 2020+.

According to the complaint, the plaintiff’s patented product is used before, during and after pregnancy to combat iron deficiency - anemia. It is a dual iron nutritional supplement. The defendant’s product Pharma Pure RX PNV OB+DHA is also an iron nutritional supplement that infringes the patent US6521247.

Plaintiff in the past has filed similar patents-in-suit against the companies listed below:

Company	Case No.	Patents Involved	Products	Date Filed	Status
TriGen Laboratories	5:10-cv-00112	US6521247	Prenatal Supplements	Feb 09, 2010	Pending
Midlothian Laboratories	5:09-cv-00744	US6521247	Foltabs Prenatal Supplements	Sep 10, 2009	Pending

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