Marlyn Nutraceutical v. Mucos Pharma Gmbh

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

MARLYN NUTRACEUTICALS, INC.,  No. 08-15101 Plaintiff-Appellant, v.  D.C. No.

CV-07-00012-ROS

MUCOS PHARMA GMBH & CO.,

OPINION

Defendant-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona Roslyn O. Silver, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted October 20, 2008—San Francisco, California

Filed July 2, 2009

Before: J. Clifford Wallace, Sidney R. Thomas, and Susan P. Graber, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Sidney R. Thomas

8193 8196 MARLYN NUTRACEUTICALS v. MUCOS PHARMA

COUNSEL

Maria Salapska, Law Offices of Maria Salapska, PLLC, Phoe- nix, Arizona; Paul M. Levine, McCarthy Holthus Levine, Phoenix, Arizona; Paul F. Eckstein and Karin S. Aldama, Per- kins Coie Brown & Bain, PA, Phoenix, Arizona, for the appellant.

Paul F. Donahue, K&L Gates LLP, Chicago, Illinois; Jason M. Marks, Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP, Chicago, Illinois; Debra A. Winiarski, Phoenix, Arizona, for the appellee.

OPINION

THOMAS, Circuit Judge:

This appeal presents the question, among others, as to the appropriate criteria that a district court…