On
April 28, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit granted the petition for
rehearing en banc submitted by
Plaintiffs-Appellants Abbott Diabetes Care, Inc. (formerly Therasense, Inc.)
and Abbott Laboratories in Therasense, Inc. v. Becton, Dickinson & Co. (see "Federal Circuit Grants En Banc
Review in Therasense v. Becton Dickinson").  In response to requests they have
received for access to the briefs, counsel for Plaintiffs-Appellants have asked
Patent Docs to make the briefs
accessible to the patent community.

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Brief of Plaintiff-Appellants Abbott Laboratories and Abbott Diabetes Care,
Inc. (download), November 4, 2008
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Brief of Defendants-Appellees Becton, Dickinson and Company and Nova Biomedical
Corporation (download), December 17, 2008
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Brief for Defendant-Appellee Bayer Healthcare LLC (download), December 17, 2008
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Reply Brief of Plaintiff-Appellants Abbott Laboratories and Abbott Diabetes
Care, Inc. (download), February 9, 2009
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Petition for Rehearing En Banc of Plaintiffs-Appellants Abbott Diabetes Care,
Inc. and Abbott Laboratories (download), February 24, 2010
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Brief of Amici Curiae Nine
Intellectual Property Law Professors in Support of En Banc Review of
Inequitable Conduct (download), March 8, 2010
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Brief of Amici Curiae The Honorable
Bruce A. Lehman and The International Intellectual Property Institute in
Support of Plaintiffs-Appellants' Petition for Rehearing En Banc (download), March 10, 2010
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Brief of Amici Curiae Ole K. Nilssen
and Geo Foundation, Ltd. in Support of Plaintiffs-Appellants Abbott Diabetes
Care, Inc. and Abbott Laboratories' Petition for Rehearing En Banc (download),
March 10, 2010
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Brief of Washington Legal Foundation as Amicus
Curiae in Support of Plaintiffs-Appellants' Petition for Rehearing En Banc (download), March 10, 2010
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Becton, Dickinson and Company and Nova Biomedical Corp.'s Response to Abbott's
Petition for Rehearing En Banc
(download), March 18, 2010
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Bayer's Response to Abbott's Petition for Rehearing En Banc (download), March 19, 2010
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Reply of Plaintiffs-Appellants Abbott Diabetes Care, Inc. and Abbott Laboratories
in Support of Petition for Rehearing En
Banc (download), March 25, 2010