Pfizer Inc. v. Elan Pharmaceutical Research Corp.

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• concluding that the court had discretion to disregard a foreign attorney’s affidavit on foreign law under Rule 44.1
• finding that without a right to assign, the court “need look no further in determining that [the licensor] reserved substantial rights under the Agreement”
• finding that without a right to assign, the court “need look no further in determining that [the licensor] reserved substantial rights under the Agreement”
• “[notwithstanding” transferee’s failure to comply with conditions in agreement for suing in own name, agreement did not place transferee on equal footing with transferor regarding right to sue for infringement
• “Nothing in Rule 44.1 requires a court to engage in private research; the rule preserves the court’s right to insist upon a complete presentation by counsel on the foreign-law issue.”
• “Nothing in Rule 44.1 requires a court to engage in private before he, she, it can file a derivative suit on behalf of a corporation, that determination is not controlling here because in 1Globe 1

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