Opinion
2012-1151
02-07-2012
AVENTIS PHARMA S.A. and SANOFI-AVENTIS U.S. LLC, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. STRIDES, INC. and ONCO THERAPIES LIMITED, Defendants-Appellees.
NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Delaware in case no. ll-CV-1121, Chief Judge Gregory M. Sleet.
ON MOTION
ORDER
Aventis Pharma S.A. et al. move without opposition to stay proceedings in this case pending the court's disposition in Aventis Pharma SA. v. Hospira Inc., No. 2011-1018.
Aventis asserts that the appeals involve the same patents and that the consent judgment from which this appeal was taken was based upon the judgment in Hospira.
The court notes that oral argument was held in Hospira on January 9, 2012.
Accordingly,
IT IS ORDERED THAT:
(1) The motion is granted. The briefing schedule is stayed in 2012-1151. Aventis is directed to inform the court within 30 days of the disposition of Hospira how this appeal should proceed. The appellees may also respond within that time.
(2) A copy of this order shall be transmitted to the merits panel assigned to hear Hospira to inform that panel of this related case.
FOR THE COURT
Jan Horbaly
Clerk
cc: George F. Pappas, Esq.
Neal C. Belgam, Esq.
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