Opinion
2011-1223 2012-1031
08-15-2012
NOVO NORDISK A/S AND NOVO NORDISK INC., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CARACO PHARMACEUTICAL LABORATORIES, LTD. AND SUN PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD., Defendants-Appellees. NOVO NORDISK INC. AND NOVO NORDISK A/S, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. PADDOCK LABORATORIES, INC., Defendant-Appellee.
NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan in case no. 05-CY-40188, Judge Avern Cohn.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota in case no. 10-CV-2199, Judge Donovan W. Frank.
ON MOTION
ORDER
Novo Nordisk et al. submit responses and motions concerning how these cases should proceed.
Upon consideration thereof,
IT IS ORDERED THAT:
(1) The motions are granted to the extent that the stays of the briefing schedules are lifted in the two above-captioned appeals. The appellant's opening brief in each appeal is due within 40 days of the date of filing of this order.
(2) Appeal 2011-1223 and 2012-1031 will be treated as companion cases, i.e., they will be argued consecutively before the same merits panel.
FOR THE COURT
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Jan Horbaly
Clerk
cc: Daniel G. Brown, Esq.
James F. Hurst, Esq.
Mark A. Perry, Esq.
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