The trial over a licensing dispute between Japanese pharmaceutical company Asahi Kasei Pharma Corp. and Europe’s largest biotech company, Actelion Ltd., was supposed to last seven days. Instead, it turned into a three-month brawl in San Mateo County Superior Court, with each side claiming the other was gunning for a mistrial.
In court papers, lawyers at Morgan Lewis & Bockius, which represented plaintiff Asahi, accused opposing counsel of “yelling, finger-pointing, and screaming” at the trial judge to cause a mistrial. Defense attorneys at Cotchett Pitre & McCarthy responded that Morgan Lewis was trying to cause a mistrial by filing the motion in the first place.
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