The Association for Molecular Pathology v. u.s. Patent and Trademark Office

NOTE: ThiS order is n0nprecedentia1.

United States Court of A11peals for the Federal Circuit

THE ASSOCIATION FOR MOLECULAR

PATHOLOGY, THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF

MEDICAL GENETICS, THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR CLINICAL PATHOLOGY, THE COLLEGE OF AMERICAN PATHOLOGISTS, I'IAIG KAZAZIAN, MD, ARUPA GANGULY, PhD, W'ENDY CHUN_'G, MD, PhD, HARRY OSTRER, MD, DAVID LEDBETTER, PhD, STEPHEN WARREN, PhD, ELLEN MATLOFF, M.S., ELSA REICH, M.S., BREAST CANCER ACTION, BOSTON WOMEN’S HEALTH BOOK

COLLECTIVE, LISBETH CERIANI,

RUNI LIMARY, GENAE GIRARD, PATRICE

FORTUNE, VICKY THOMASON, and KATHLEEN RAKER,

Plaintiffs-Appellees,

V.

UNITED STATES PATENT AND

TRADEM_ARK OFFICE,

Defendcmt, and

MYRIAD GENETICS, INC.,

Defen,dcmt-Appellcmt, and

LORRIS BETZ, ROGER BOYER, JACK BRITTAIN, ARNOLD B. COMBE, RAYMOND GESTELAND,

JAMES U. JENSEN, JOHN KENDALL MORRIS, ASSOCIATION FOR MOLECULAR V. PTO 2

THOMAS PARKS, DAVID W. PERSHING, and

MICHAEL K. YOUNG, in their official capacity as Directors of the University of Utah Research F0un- dati0n,

Defen,dan,ts-Appellan,ts.

2010-1406

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in case no. 09-CV-45l5, Senior Judge Robert W. SWeet.

ON MOTION

ORDER

The Federal Circuit Bar Ass0ciation (FCBA) moves without opposition for leave to tile a brief amicus curiae in connection with the motion to recuse Chief Judge Rader filed by The Association for Molecular Path0logy et al. Upon consideration thereof,

IT ls ORDERED THAT:

The motion is granted In the event that Chief Judge Rader is assigned to the panel in this case or the case is heard en banc, the FCBA’s amicus brief will be transmit- ted to him.

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FOR THE CoURT ms 1 /s/ Jan Horbaly

Date J an Horbaly

Clerk cc: Christopher A. l-Iansen, Esq.

Gregory A. Castanias, Esq.

EdWard R. Reines, Esq.

FlLED u.s. coram or

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AUG 1 6 2010 .|AN HORBA|.Y

GLERK