Court Opinion

ID: 616321
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Date Created: 2011-10-28 19:01:18+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:27:39.368881
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NOTE: This order is nonprecedential
United States Court of AppeaIs
for the FederaI Circuit
IN RE W. DANIEL HILLIS, RODERICK A. HYDE,
NATHAN P. MYHRVOLD, CLARENCE T.
TEGREENE, AND LOWELL L. WOOD, JR.
2011-1401
(Serial No. 11/386,211)
Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark
Office, Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences.
ON MOTION
ORDER
The Director of the United States Patent and Trade-
mark OfE1ce moves for an 18-day extension of time, until
Novernber 22, 2011, for the Director to file his response
brief, and for a 20-day extension of ti1ne, until December
29, 2011, for the appellants to file their reply brief
Up0n consideration there0f,
IT ls OR;oERED THAT:

AFFYMAX V. JOHNSON & JOHNSON 2
Johnson & Johnson, Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical,
Inc., Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation, R.W. Johnson
Pharmaceutical Research fnstitute, Johnson & Johnson
Pharmaceutical Research and Development, LLC, and
Does 1-10 (J&J) move to dismiss the appeal for lack of
jurisdiction Affymax, Inc. opposes. J&J replies
Affymax filed a complaint asserting, inter alia, claims
for correction of inventorship under 35 U.S.C. § 256 as
well as state and contract law claims. J&J moved to
compel arbitration and the district court granted the
motion. An arbitration panel issued an award determin-
ing the parties' rights to the patents and patent applica-
tions. Affymax moved to vacate the award in part
pursuant to 9 U.S.C, § 10. The district court granted that
motion in part, confirming the award concerning United
States patents and applications and vacating the award
and remanding for further arbitration proceédings con-
cerning the inventorship of foreign patents.
Affymax appealed, seeking this court's review of the
portion of the district court's determination that con-
firmed the award concerning United States patents and
applications. J&J appealed to the United States Court of
Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, seeking review of the
district court's vacatur of a portion of the arbitration
award. The Seventh Circuit expedited its proceedings
and determined that it had jurisdiction and that this
circuit would not have jurisdiction. The Seventh Circuit
held that the case involved "a dispute about patent own-
ership that does not depend on 28 U.S.C. § l338" and that
the order was appealable pursuant to 9 U.S.C. §
16(a)(1)(E). The Seventh Circuit also held that the order
was not appealable as being equivalent to an order involv-
ing an injunction, apparently in response to our holdings
in Micr0chip Tech. Inc. v. U.S. Philips Corp., 367 F.3d
1350, 1354-55 (Fed. Cir. 2004) (order compelling arbitra-