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Health Care & Hospital Law

May 18, 2011

Eli Lilly Faces Drug Marketing Suit

Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc. filed a sealed lawsuit against Eli Lilly and Co. on Monday claiming the company engaged in anti-competitive activity and breached a strategic alliance by marketing a competitor's diabetes drug.


By Mandy Jackson


Daily Journal Staff Writer


San Diego-based Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc. filed a sealed lawsuit against prescription drug giant Eli Lilly and Co. in federal court on Monday claiming the company engaged in anti-competitive activity and breached a strategic alliance by marketing a competitor's diabetes drug.


Amylin and Lilly signed an agreement in 2002 in which Lilly is responsible for marketing Amylin's drugs. Amyl...

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