
    OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD., Plaintiff-Appellant v. ZYDUS PHARMACEUTICALS USA, INC., Cadila Healthcare, Limited, Mylan Inc., Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc., Torrent Pharmaceuticals Limited, Torrent Pharma Inc., Hetero Labs Limited, Ajanta Pharma Limited, Ajanta Pharma USA Inc., Aurobindo Pharma Ltd., Intas Pharmaceuticals Limited, Accord Healthcare, Inc., Aurobindo Pharma USA Inc., Aurolife Pharma LLC, Lupin Limited, Lupin Atlantis Holdings S.A., Lupin Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Alembic Pharmaceuticals Limited, Amneal Pharmaceuticals, LLC, Amneal Pharmaceuticals India Pvt. Ltd., Defendants-Appellees
    2016-1962, 2016-1963, 2016-1964, 2016-1966, 2016-1968, 2016-1970, 2016-1971, 2016-1972, 2016-1973, 2016-1974, 2016-1975, 2016-1978
    United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.
    July 20, 2017
    
      Paul William Browning, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP/ Washington, DC, argued for plaintiff-appellant. Also represented by James B. Monroe, Charles Thomas Collins-Chase, Eric Jay Fues, Andrea Denise Main; Jeffrey Andrew Freeman, Atlanta, GA.
    Lawrence M. Sung, Wiley Rein, LLP, Washington, DC, argued for all defendants-appellees. Defendant-appellees Torrent Pharmaceuticals Limited, Torrent Pharma Inc. also represented by Aditya Neal Seth, Rachel Kapust Hunnicutt.
    Chad A. Landmon, Axinn Veltrop Hark-rider, .LLP, Hartford, CT, for defendants-appellees Zydus Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., Cadila Heathcare, Limited. Also represented by Delphine W. Knight Brown, New York, NY.
    Deepro Mukerjee, Alston & Bird LLP, New York, NY, for defendants-appellees Mylan Inc., Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. Also represented by Lance Soderstrom; Travis James Iams, Charlotte, NC.
    Margaret E. Ives, Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP, Boston, MA, for defendant-appel-lee Hetero Labs Limited. Also represented by Phoebe Fischer-Groban.
    Sailesh K. Patel, Sehiff Hardin LLP, Chicago, IL, for defendant-appellees Ajan-ta Pharma Limited, Ajanta Pharma USA Inc. Also represented by Helen H. Ji.
    Brian Wm. Higgins, Blank Rome LLP, Washington, DC, for defendants-appellees Aurobindo Pharma Ltd., Aurobindo Phar-ma USA Inc., Aurolife Pharma LLC. Also represented by Gerard Haddad, Christopher K. Hu, New York, NY.
    Paul Braier, Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C., Reston, VA, for defendants-appel-lees Intas Pharmaceuticals Limited, Accord Healthcare, Inc. Also represented by Péter Branko Pejic.
    Douglass C. Hochstetler, Kelley Drye & Warren, LLP, Chicago, IL, for defendants-appellees Lupin Limited, Lupin Atlantis Holdings S.A., Lupin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Also represented by Clifford Katz, New York, NY.
    Dennies Varughese, Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox, PLLC, Washington, DC, for. defendant-appellee Alembic Pharmaceuticals Limited. Also represented by Chandrika Vira, Jon Wright.
    Ronald Marc Daignault, Polsinelli PC, New York, NY, for defendants-appellees Amneal Pharmaceuticals, LLC, Amneal Pharmaceuticals India Pvt. Ltd. Also represented by Karen Zelle Morris, St. Louis, MO.
    Prost, Chief Judge, Chen and Hughes, Circuit Judges.
   JUDGMENT

Per Curiam

This Cause having been heard and considered, it is

Ordered and Adjudged:

AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.  