          NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.


  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
                   ______________________

    AMGEN INC., AMGEN MANUFACTURING,
                  LIMITED,
             Plaintiffs-Appellants

                                  v.

SANDOZ INC., SANDOZ INTERNATIONAL GMBH,
               SANDOZ GMBH,
              Defendants-Appellees
            ______________________

                         2018-1551
                   ______________________

   Appeal from the United States District Court for the
Northern District of California in No. 3:14-cv-04741-RS,
Judge Richard Seeborg.

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    AMGEN INC., AMGEN MANUFACTURING,
                  LIMITED,
             Plaintiffs-Appellants

                                  v.

SANDOZ INC., SANDOZ INTERNATIONAL GMBH,
SANDOZ GMBH, LEK PHARMACEUTICALS, D.D.,
              Defendants-Appellees
            ______________________
2                                  AMGEN INC. v. SANDOZ INC.




                        2018-1552
                  ______________________

   Appeal from the United States District Court for the
Northern District of California in No. 3:16-cv-02581-RS,
Judge Richard Seeborg.
                ______________________

       ON PETITION FOR PANEL REHEARING
               ______________________

    Before LOURIE, O’MALLEY, and REYNA, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM.
                        ORDER
    Appellants filed a petition for panel rehearing on June
7, 2019. A response to the petition was invited by the panel
and filed by the Appellees on July 29, 2019.
     Upon consideration thereof,
     IT IS ORDERED THAT:
     1) The petition for panel rehearing is GRANTED to
        the extent that the following portion of the opinion
        at page 11, lines 20–21, is removed:
            applies only in exceptional cases and
     2) The petition for panel rehearing is otherwise
        DENIED.


                                   FOR THE COURT

       September 3, 2019           /s/ Peter R. Marksteiner
            Date                   Peter R. Marksteiner
                                   Clerk of Court
