Triantafyllos TAFAS, Plaintiff-Appellee, and
SmithKline Beecham Corporation (doing business as GlaxoSmithKline), Smithkline Beecham PLC, and Glaxo Group Limited (doing business as GlaxoSmithKline), Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
David J. KAPPOS, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and United States Patent and Trademark Office, Defendants-Appellants.
United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
November 13, 2009.
November 13, 2009.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Joshua Waldman, Scott R. McIntosh, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, James A. Toupin, Stephen Walsh, William G. Jenks, Sydney O. Johnson, Jr., William Lamarca, Raymond T. Chen, Janet A. Gongola, Nathan K. Kelley, Jennifer McDowell, Patent & Trademark Office, Arlington, VA, for Defendant-Appellant.
James E. Nealon and Steven J. Moore, Kelley, Drye & Warren, LLP, Washington, D.C., F. Christopher Mizzo, Peter J. Armenio, Jeffrey Bossert Clark, Daniel Sean Trainor, Scott M. Abeles, William Bestani, Kirkland & Ellis, LLP, Carter G. Phillips, Jeffrey P. Kushan, David L. Fitzgerald, Virginia A. Seitz, Sidley Austin, LLP, Washington, DC, John M. Desmarais, Kirkland & Ellis, LLP, New York, NY, Sherry Knowles, GlaxoSmithKline, King of Prussia, PA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Daniel B. Ravicher, Software Freedom Law Center, New York, NY, Robert Greene Sterne, Kenneth C. Bass, III, Jon E. Wright, Mark Fox Evens, Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, Teresa Stanek Rea, Crowell & Moring, LLP, Ronald A. Schechter, David R. Marsh, Matthew M. Shultz, Kristan Lynn Lansbery, Arnold & Porter, LLP, Kevin Thomas Kramer, Stephanie Francoise Goeller, Pillsbury, Winthrop, Shaw, Pittman, LLP, Washington, DC, Jerry R. Selinger, Patterson & Sheridan, LLP, Dallas, TX, Arthur O. Klein, Klein & Vibber, P.C., Westport, CT, Mark A. Lemley, Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA, Heath W. Hoglund, Dolby Laboratories, Inc., San Francisco, CA, Vincent Napoleon, Philadelphia, PA, Scott Jeffrey Pivnick, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP, McLean, VA, Buckmaster De Wolf, General Electric Company, Fairfield, CT, for Amicus Curiae.
Before MICHEL, Chief Judge, NEWMAN, MAYER, RADER, BRYSON, GAJARSA, LINN, DYK, PROST, and MOORE, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.
ORDER
MICHEL, Chief Judge.
Plaintiffs-Appellees SmithKline Beecham Corp., SmithKline Beecham PLC, and Glaxo Group Limited (collectively "GlaxoSmithKline") and Defendants-Appellants David J. Kappos and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ("USPTO") (collectively "Kappos") have filed a joint motion for dismissal of the appeal and to vacate the judgment of the district court below. Plaintiff-Appellee Triantafyllos Tafas has filed a response, joining...
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