Record returned to U.S.D.C. for Central District of California.

Record returned to U.S.C.A. for Federal Circuit.

Acknowledgement of receipt (02/12/07) of judgment from Clerk, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit received.

JUDGMENT ISSUED.

Judgment REVERSED and case REMANDED. Scalia, J. delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Roberts, C. J., and Stevens, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer, and Alito, JJ., joined. Thomas J., filed a dissenting opinion.

Argued. For petitioner: John G. Kester, Washington, D.C.; and Deanne E. Maynard, Assistant to the Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. (for United States, as amicus curiae.) For respondents: Maureen E. Mahoney, Washington, D.C.

Record received from U.S.D.C. for the Central District of California. (3 boxes)

Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument GRANTED. (orders list)

Reply of petitioner MedImmune, Inc. filed. (Distributed)

Application (06A172) denied by The Chief Justice.

Application (06A172) to file petitioner's reply brief on the merits in excess of page limits, submitted to The Chief Justice.

Record received from U.S.C.A. for Federal Circuit. (1 box)

Brief amici curiae of Richard L. Donaldson, et al. filed. (Distributed)

Brief of respondent Genentech, Inc. filed. (Distributed)

Brief amicus curiae of Boston Patent Law Association filed. (Distributed)

Brief amicus curiae of Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America filed. (Distributed)

Brief of respondent City of Hope National Medical Center filed. (Distributed)

Brief amicus curiae of American Intellectual Property Law Association filed. (Distributed)

Brief amici curiae of Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, et al. filed. (Distributed)

Brief amici curiae of Qualcomm Incorporated and Interdigital Communications Corporation filed. (Distributed)

Brief amici curiae of Professors John R. Allison, et al. filed. (Distributed)

Brief amicus curiae of New York Intellectual Property Law Association filed. (Distributed)

Brief amici curiae of Group of Law of Professors, Andrew Beckerman-Rodau, et al filed. (Distributed)

Brief amici curiae of 3M, General Electric, Proctor & Gamble, and E I.DuPont de Nemours filed. (Distributed)

Brief amicus curiae of American Bar Association filed. (Distributed).

Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument filed.

CIRCULATED.

SET FOR ARGUMENT on Wednesday, October 4, 2006.

Extension of time within which to file respondents' briefs on the merits to and including July 26, 2006.

Joint appendix filed. Joint appendix in two volumes.

Further extension of time within which to file the joint appendix and petitioner's brief on the merits to and including May 17, 2006.

Brief amicus curiae of Generic Pharmaceutical Association filed.

Brief amicus curiae of Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. filed.

Brief amicus curiae of Medtronic, Inc. filed.

Brief amicus curiae of Licensing Executives Society (U.S.A. & Canada), Inc. filed.

Brief of petitioner MedImmune, Inc. filed.

Brief amicus curiae of United States filed.

Brief amici curiae of Three Intellectual Property Professors filed.

Letter from counsel for respondent City of Hope indicating that amicus consent will be addressed on an individual request basis.

Further extension of time within which to file the joint appendix and petitioner's brief on the merits to and including May 15, 2006.

Consent to the filing of amicus briefs in support of either party received from counsel for the respondent Genentech only.

Extension of time within which to file the joint appendix and petitioner's brief on the merits to and including May 8, 2006.

Petition GRANTED. (orders list)

Reply of petitioner MedImmune, Inc. filed. (Distributed)

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of February 17, 2006.

Brief of respondents Genentech, Inc., et al. in opposition filed.

Order extending time to file response to petition to and including December 27, 2005.

Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 15, 2005)

MedImmune, Inc., Petitioner, represented by John G. Kester

MedImmune, Inc., Petitioner, represented by Harvey Kurzweil

City of Hope National Medical Center, Respondent, represented by Paul M. Smith

Genentech, Inc., Respondent, represented by Maureen E. Mahoney

Genentech, Inc., et al., Respondent, represented by Daniel M. Wall

3M, General Electric, Proctor & Gamble, and E I.DuPont de Nemours, Amicus Curiae, represented by Gary L. Griswold

American Bar Association, Amicus Curiae, represented by Michael S. Greco

American Intellectual Property Law Association, Amicus Curiae, represented by Edward R. Reines

Boston Patent Law Association, Amicus Curiae, represented by Erik Paul Belt

Generic Pharmaceutical Association, Amicus Curiae, represented by Theodore Case Whitehouse

Law of Professors Andrew Beckerman-Rodau, et al, Amicus Curiae, represented by David Charles Hricik

Licensing Executives Society (U.S.A. & Canada), Inc., Amicus Curiae, represented by Christine E. Lehman

MedImmune, Inc. v. Genentech, Inc., et al., Amicus Curiae, represented by Deanne E. Maynard

Medtronic, Inc., Amicus Curiae, represented by Kenneth C. Bass III

Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., Amicus Curiae, represented by Scott L. Nelson

New York Intellectual Property Law Association, Amicus Curiae, represented by David F. Ryan

Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, Amicus Curiae, represented by Marjorie E. Powell

Professors John R. Allison, et al., Amicus Curiae, represented by Thomas F. Cotter

Qualcomm Incorporated and Interdigital Communications Corporation, Amicus Curiae, represented by E. Joshua Rosenkranz

Richard L. Donaldson, et al., Amicus Curiae, represented by Justin A. Nelson

Three Intellectual Property Professors, Amicus Curiae, represented by Jay Dratler Jr.

Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, et al., Amicus Curiae, represented by Jerrold J. Ganzfried

United States, Amicus Curiae, represented by Paul D. Clement