NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.

Wniteb ~tate5 (!Court of ~eaI5 for tbe jfeberaI (!Cirmit IN RE BIOSEARCH TECHNOLOGIES, INC. AND EUROFINS MWG OPERON ING., Petitioners.

Miscellaneous Docket No. 995

On Petition for Writ of Mandamus to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in case no. 09-CV-0283, Judge T. John Ward.

ON PETITION

ORDER Biosearch Technologies, Inc. and Eurofins MWG Op- eron Inc. (Biosearch) submit a petition for a writ of man- damus to direct the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas to vacate its orders denying Biosearch's motion to transfer venue, and to direct the Texas district court to transfer the case to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Califor- nia.

Upon consideration thereof, IN RE BIOSEARCH TECH 2

IT Is ORDERED THAT: Applied Biosystems, LLC and Life Technologies Cor- poration are directed to respond no later than August 2, 2011.

FOR THE COURT

JUl 192011 /s/ Jan Horbaly Date Jan Horbaly Clerk

cc: Thomas M. Peterson, Esq.

Stephen M. Hash, Esq.

Clerk, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas • s24 FILED u.s. COU!tr OF APPEALS FOR THE FEDERAL CIRCUIT JUL 19 lOll