Interim injunctions and litigation strategy after Ranbaxy v Pfizer

The District Court of Helsinki gave an interesting and rare decision this year regarding damages for unnecessary interim injunctions in a case between Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited, Ranbaxy UK Limited and Ranbaxy Pharma AB (Ranbaxy) as plaintiffs and Warner-Lambert Company LLC and Pfizer Oy (Pfizer) as defendants (Decision of the District Court of Helsinki L 10/6838, June 4, 2014). Ranbaxy is the producer of, inter alia, a medicine competing with another named Lipitor, which is produced by one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the world, Pfizer.