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ARTHREX, INC. v. SMITH & NEPHEW, INC.

2018-2140.

953 F.3d 760 (2020)

ARTHREX, INC., Appellant v. SMITH & NEPHEW, INC., Arthrocare Corp., Appellees United States, Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

Date March 23, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anthony P. Cho , Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, PC, Birmingham, MI, for appellant. Also represented by David Louis Atallah , David J. Gaskey , Jessica E. Fleetham ; Trevor Arnold , John W. Schmieding , Arthrex, Inc., Naples, FL; Robert Kry , Jeffrey A. Lamken , MoloLamken LLP, Washington, DC.

Charles T. Steenburg , Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, PC, Boston, MA, for appellees. Also represented by Richard Giunta , Turhan Sarwar , Nathan R. Speed ; Michael N. Rader, New York, NY; Mark J. Gorman , Smith & Nephew, Inc., Cordova, TN; Mark Andrew Perry , Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Washington, DC.

Melissa N. Patterson , Appellate Staff, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for intervenor. Also represented by Courtney Dixon , Scott R. McIntosh , Joseph H. Hunt ; Sarah E. Craven , Thomas W. Krause , Joseph Matal , Farheena Yasmeen Rasheed , Daniel Kazhdan , Nicholas Theodore Matich, IV , Molly R. Silfen , Office of the Solicitor, United States Patent and Trademark Office, Alexandria, VA.

Charles R. Macedo , Amster Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP, New York, NY, for amicus curiae New York Intellectual Property Law Association. Also represented by David P. Goldberg ; Robert M. Isackson , Leason Ellis LLP, White Plains, NY; Robert Joseph Rando , The Rando Law Firm P.C., Syosset, NY; Ksenia Takhistova , East Brunswick, NJ.

Matthew S. Hellman , Jenner & Block LLP, Washington, DC, for amicus curiae The Association of Accessible Medicines. Also represented by Yusuf Esat , Chicago, IL; Jeffrey Francer , The Association for Accessible Medicines, Washington, DC.

Wallach, Circuit Judge, dissents from the denial of the petitions for rehearing en banc.

ON PETITIONS FOR REHEARING EN BANC

ORDER

Petitions for rehearing en banc were filed by appellant Arthrex, Inc.; appellees Smith & Nephew, Inc. and Arthrocare Corp.; and intervenor United States. Responses to the petitions were invited by the court and filed by all three parties. Two motions for leave to file amici curiae...

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