Eli Lilly Ordered to Pay German Drug Company $20 Million for Infringing Sales of Cialis

Written by Stephanie M. Johnson and Paul Stewart Edited by John Sganga, Joseph Cianfrani, and Boris Zelkind On July 18, 2017, after two years of litigation and a jury trial, a Texas federal court ordered Eli Lilly & Co. (“Eli Lilly”) to pay Erfindergemeinschaft UroPep GbR (“UroPep”) $20,000,000 in damages and over $930,000 in pre-judgment interest for patent infringement.  The case arose from Eli Lilly’s marketing of its famous drug...