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Farmington Hills-based Vitamin Health Inc. is escalating its two-year court battle with the New Jersey-based eye care giant Bausch & Lomb Inc. with a new federal lawsuit in Detroit over a vitamin formula developed to slow the progress of macular degeneration.
Vitamin Health, founded in 2001 by Aaron Shepherd and maker of various VitEyes eye vitamin products, brought a lawsuit before Judge John Corbett O'Meara of U.S. District Court, alleging false advertising and violations of the Michigan Consumer Protection Act in Bausch's marketing of two PreserVision products.
The Detroit case follows a 2013 lawsuit by Bausch and Wyeth LLC against Vitamin Health claiming false advertising and two counts of patent infringement by VitEyes, at a federal court in Rochester, N.Y. Vitamin Health is also suing Hartford Casualty Insurance Co. for breach of contract in a related case,...