Tafas v. Dudas et al

Filing 278

NOTICE by Jon Dudas, The United States Patent and Trademark Office of Appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Wetzler, Lauren)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA Alexandria Division TRIANTAFYLLOS TAFAS, Plaintiff, v. JON W. DUDAS, et al., Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) )

Civil Action No. 1:07cv846(L) (JCC/TRJ)

CONSOLIDATED WITH SMITHKLINE BEECHAM CORPORATION, et al., Plaintiffs, v. JON W. DUDAS, et al., Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) )

Civil Action No. 1:07cv1008 (JCC/TRJ)

NOTICE OF APPEAL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that Defendants Jon W. Dudas and the United States Patent and Trademark Office hereby appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal C irc u it from this Court's Final Order of April 1, 2008.

Respectfully submitted, CHUCK ROSENBERG UNITED STATES ATTORNEY

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/s/ Lauren A. Wetzler Assistant United States Attorney Attorney for All Defendants Justin W. Williams U.S. Attorney's Building 2100 Jamieson Avenue Alexandria, Virginia 22314 Tel: [phone] Fax: [phone] [e-mail]

OF COUNSEL: James A. Toupin General Counsel Stephen Walsh Acting Deputy General Counsel and Solicitor William Covey Deputy General Counsel William G. Jenks Janet A. Gongola Nathan Kelley William LaMarca Associate Solicitors Jennifer M. McDowell Associate Counsel United States Patent and Trademark Office

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that on May 7, 2008, I electronically filed the foregoing with the Clerk of the Court using the CM/ECF system, which will send a notification of such filing (NEF) to the following: Joseph Dale Wilson, III Kelley Drye & Warren LLP Washington Harbour 3050 K Street NW Suite 400 Washington, DC 20007 Email: [e-mail] Joanna Elizabeth Baden-Mayer Collier Shannon & Scott PLLC 3050 K St NW Suite 400 Washington, DC 20007-5108 E-mail: [e-mail] Counsel for Plaintiff Triantafyllos Tafas, 1:07cv846 Elizabeth Marie Locke Kirkland & Ellis LLP 655 15th St NW Suite 1200 Washington, DC 20005 Email: [e-mail] Craig Crandell Reilly 111 Oronoco St. Alexandria, VA 22314 Email: [e-mail] Daniel Sean Trainor Kirkland & Ellis LLP 655 15th St NW Suite 1200 Washington, DC 20005 Email: [e-mail] Counsel for Plaintiffs SmithKline Beecham Corp. d/b/a GlaxoSmithKline, SmithKline Beecham PLC, and Glaxo Group Limited, d/b/a GlaxoSmithKline, 1:07cv1008 3 Thomas J. O'Brien Morgan, Lewis & Bockius 1111 Pennsylvania Ave, NW Washington, DC 20004 Email: to'[e-mail] Counsel for Amicus American Intellectual Property Lawyers Association Dawn-Marie Bey Kilpatrick Stockton LLP 700 13th St NW Suite 800 Washington, DC 20005 Email: [e-mail] Counsel for Amicus Hexas, LLC, The Roskamp Institute, Tikvah Therapeutics, Inc. James Murphy Dowd Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP 1455 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, DC 20004 Email: [e-mail] Counsel for Amicus Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Randall Karl Miller Arnold & Porter LLP 1600 Tysons Blvd Suite 900 McLean, VA 22102 Email: [e-mail] Counsel for Amicus Biotechnology Industry Organization

Rebecca M. Carr Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP 2300 N Street, NW Washington, DC 20037 [e-mail] Scott J. Pivnick Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman 1650 Tysons Boulevard McLean, Virginia 22102-4856 [e-mail] Counsel for Amicus Elan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Charles Gorenstein Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch LLP 8110 Gatehouse Rd. P.O. Box 747 Falls Church, VA 22040-0747 [e-mail] Counsel for Amicus Intellectual Property Institute of William Mitchell College of Law Craig James Franco Odin Feldman & Pittleman PC 9302 Lee Highway Suite 1100 Fairfax, VA 22031 [e-mail] Counsel for Amicus Polestar Capital Associates, LLC and Norseman Group, LLC Robert Emmett Scully, Jr. Stites & Harbison, PLLC 1199 North Fairfax St. Suite 900 Alexandria, VA 22314 [e-mail] Counsel for Amicus Human Genome Sciences, Inc.

Matthew Christian Schruers Morrison & Foerster 2000 Pennsylvania Ave NW Suite 5500 Washington, DC 20006-1888 [e-mail] Counsel for Amicus Public Patent Foundation, et al.

Kenneth Carrington Bass, III Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox 1100 New York Ave NW Suite 600 Washington, DC 20005 [e-mail] Mark Fox Evens Thelen, Reid & Priest, LLP 701 Eighth St NW 5th Floor Washington, DC 20001-3721 [e-mail] Counsel for Amicus AmberWave Systems Corporation, et al. Jackson David Toof Robins Kaplan Miller & Ciresi LLP 1875 Eye St NW Suite 300 Washington, DC 20006-1307 [e-mail] Counsel for Interested Party Anchor Wall Systems, Inc., et al. Robert Christian Bertin Swidler Berlin LLP 3000 K St NW Suite 300 Washington, DC 20007-5116 [e-mail] Counsel for Amicus Bar Association of the District of Columbia 4

Robert C. Gill Saul Ewing LLP 2600 Virginia Ave NW Suite 1000 Washington, DC 20037 [e-mail] Counsel for Amicus BioAdvance, et al. Jonathan Dyste Link Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP 1301 K St NW 9th Floor, East Tower Washington, DC 20005 [e-mail] Counsel for Amicus CFPH, LLC John C. Maginnis, III 1350 Connecticut Ave NW Suite 301 Washington, DC 20036 [e-mail] Counsel for Amicus CropLife America Timothy A. Molino Bingham McCutchen LLP 2020 K St NW Washington, DC 20006 [e-mail] Counsel for Amicus Federation Internationale Des Conseils En Proprit Industrielle Maurice Francis Mullins Spotts Fain PC 411 E Franklin St Suite 600 PO Box 1555 Richmond, VA 23218-1555 [e-mail] Counsel for Interested Party Intel Corporation

Blair Elizabeth Taylor Covington & Burling 1201 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, DC 20004-7566 [e-mail] Counsel for Amicus Intellectual Property Owner Association Maurice Francis Mullins Spotts Fain PC 411 E Franklin St Suite 600 PO Box 1555 Richmond, VA 23218-1555 [e-mail] Counsel for Amicus Micron Technology, Inc. David Wayne Long Howrey Simon Arnold & White LLP 1299 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, DC 20004 [e-mail] Counsel for Amicus Teles AG Informationstechnologien Kevin Michael Henry Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP 1501 K St NW Washington, DC 20005 [e-mail] Counsel for Amicus Washington Legal Foundation

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I have also caused copies of the foregoing to be sent to the following non-ECF users by first-class mail (where an address has been provided to the Court) or electronic mail (where it has not been): Jennifer Sue Martinez Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way Stanford, CA 94305 Counsel for Amicus Intellectual Property and Administrative Law and Public Health Professors Ron D. Katznelson Encinitas, CA [e-mail] Amicus Curiae Pro Se Robert Lelkes Geigenbergerstr. 3 81477 Munich Germany Amicus Curiae Pro Se /s/ LAUREN A. WETZLER Assistant United States Attorney Justin W. Williams U.S. Attorney's Building 2100 Jamieson Avenue Alexandria, Virginia 22314 Tel: [phone] Fax: [phone] [e-mail] Counsel for All Defendants

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