The court decision is another important victory for medical innovators who invest in high-risk research to develop life saving medicines, as well as for the patients who benefit from those medicines.

This is an important victory not only for Pfizer but for all innovators pursuing high-risk medical discoveries.

The decision to acquit on the conspiracy charge, a felony, is a huge victory, given the narrow parameters within which the four could present their defense, and given the restrictions on deliberations. This is a major setback in the government's efforts to criminalize dissent.

I am thrilled with today's victory. But this is a win for all New Yorkers. Today's decision means an additional billion dollars of insurance proceeds will be available.

Having 40 million people who are uninsured is absolutely scandalous.

It is critically important as we make investment decisions, bring new drugs to market, that we know what the rules of the game are so that we can have a predictable, transparent intellectual property system.