-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, NKYZ+LNHZZn2koYy5bxJCqJj1RMOxCKIUJUDk4mBDmRB5fYDCHUFRkkSVArYI/Ga fiWa+WV55+jdiFKcTozqoQ== 0000950123-10-069790.txt : 20100729 0000950123-10-069790.hdr.sgml : 20100729 20100729161422 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000950123-10-069790 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20100728 ITEM INFORMATION: Other Events FILED AS OF DATE: 20100729 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20100729 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: MEDICIS PHARMACEUTICAL CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000859368 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS [2834] IRS NUMBER: 521574808 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-14471 FILM NUMBER: 10978043 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 7720 DOBSON ROAD CITY: SCOTTSDALE STATE: AZ ZIP: 85256 BUSINESS PHONE: 2125992000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 7720 DOBSON ROAD CITY: SCOTTSDALE STATE: AZ ZIP: 85256 8-K 1 p17990e8vk.htm FORM 8-K e8vk
 
 
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
July 28, 2010
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)
Medicis Pharmaceutical Corporation
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
         
Delaware   001-14471   52-1574808
(State of Incorporation)   (Commission File Number)   (IRS Employer
Identification Number)
7720 North Dobson Road
Scottsdale, Arizona 85256
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
(602) 808-8800
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
N/A
(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)
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Item 8.01 Other Events.
The Company Files Suit Against Stiefel Laboratories, Inc.
     On July 28, 2010, Medicis Pharmaceutical Corporation (the “Company”) filed suit against Stiefel Laboratories, Inc., a subsidiary of GlaxoSmithKline plc (“Stiefel”), in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas — San Antonio Division seeking a declaratory judgment that the manufacture and sale of Stiefel’s acne product VELTIN™ Gel, which was recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”), will infringe one or more claims of the Company’s U.S. Patent No. RE41,134 (the “’134 Patent”) covering the Company’s product ZIANA® Gel, a prescription topical gel indicated for the treatment of acne that was approved by the FDA in November 2006. The ’134 Patent is listed in the FDA’s Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations (Orange Book) and expires in February 2015. The Company has rights to the ’134 Patent pursuant to an exclusive license agreement with the owner of the patent. The relief requested by the Company in the lawsuit includes a request for a permanent injunction preventing Stiefel from infringing the ’134 Patent by engaging in the commercial manufacture, use, importation, offer to sell, or sale of any therapeutic composition or method of use covered by the ’134 Patent, including such activities relating to VELTIN™, and from inducing or contributing to any such activities.

 

 

SIGNATURES
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
         
  Medicis Pharmaceutical Corporation
 		  
Date: July 29, 2010  By:   /s/ Jason D. Hanson    
    Jason D. Hanson   
    Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer,
Acting General Counsel and Corporate Secretary 		  
 

 

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