Know Your Judge: Jose Linares Handles Top-Selling Drug Cases

• Judge’s district is second-busiest patent litigation docket in country • New Jersey, Delaware handle 90 percent of all brand-generic drug patent suits

New Jersey is home to a large concentration of life sciences companies and its federal district court judges hear many high-profile pharmaceutical patent and product liability cases.

Chief Judge Jose L. Linares is no exception. Linares has presided over patent litigation involving some of the nation’s top-selling drug products including Merck & Co.'s litigation over its cholesterol drugs Zetia (ezetimibe) and Vytorin (ezetimibe/simvastatin) and Purdue Pharmaceutical Products LP’s litigation over its sleep aid Intermezzo (zolpidem tartrate). There’s ...