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Percentage Of The Product Of The Closing Price Of Company's Common Stock and Applicable Conversion Rate That The Trading Price Per One Thousand Dollar Principal Amount Has To Be Less Than For Conversion Of Convertible Senior Notes
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US Federal Statutory Rate
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Summary Of Available For Sale Debt And Equity Securities
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Remaining Authorized Amount Of Stock Repurchases
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Cash Payment Agreement To Acquire CGI Pharmaceuticals
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Purchase Price Of Convertible Note Hedges
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Schedule Of Inventories
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Amount of Common Stock Shares Repurchased
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Basis Point Used In Addition Of LIBOR Interest Rate Under The Credit Agreement Minimum
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Summary Of Available For Sale Debt Securities That Were In A Continuous Unrealized Loss Position But Were Not Deemed To Be Other Than Temporarily Impaired
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Summary Of The Classification Of Available For Sale Debt And Equity Securities
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Future Payments for Repurchase of Common Stock
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Schedule Of Estimated Future Amortization Expense [Text Block]
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Number Of Securities In An Unrealized Loss Position Percentage Of Total [Text Block]
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The carrying amount of the assets in the enterprise's statement of financial position that relate to the enterprise's variable interest in the unconsolidated variable interest entity.
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Minimum number of consecutive trading days that the closing price of Gilead's stock price must stay above 130% of the conversion price per share in order for the convertible notes to be convertible.
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Number Of Shares Covered By The Purchase Of Convertible Note Hedges
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Basis Point Used In Addition Of LIBOR Interest Rate Under The Credit Agreement Maximum
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Debt Instrument Conversion Rate, Shares
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Excess Of Purchase Price Over Par Value Charged Against Retained Earnings
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The measurement window of consecutive trading days of the previous quarter for notes to be subject to conversion.
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Major Customers Percentage Of Total Revenues Minimum
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Stock Repurchase Price Allocated to Common Stock and APIC
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Proceeds from sale of warrants.
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Net Cost of Convertible Note Hedge and Warrant Transactions
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Effective conversion price per share of convertible senior notes after considering note hedges and warrants.
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Future Amortization Expense Remainder Of The Year
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Principal amount of convertible senior notes used in conversion rate.
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Total Amount To Be Incurred In Connection With Our Restructuring Plan
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Net unrealized gains on available-for-sale securities included in accumulated other comprehensive income
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The lower range of the years that Auction rate securities reset
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Stock Repurchased And Retired Average Purchase Price
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Schedule Of Stock Based Compensation Expenses Included In Condensed Consolidated Statements Of Income [Text Block]
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Allocated Share Based Compensation Expense Net Of Tax
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The percentage of total revenues from the customer.
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Reconciliation Of The Numerator And Denominator Used In The Calculation Of Basic And Diluted Net Income Per Share [Text Block]
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Summary Of Available For Sale Debt Securities By Contractual Maturity [Text Block]
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Borrowing Under The Credit Agreement
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Sum of the carrying amounts of all intangible assets, including goodwill, as of the balance sheet date, net of accumulated amortization and impairment charges.
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Percentage of principal amount of Notes that holder may require us to purchase upon a change in control.
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Summary Of Gross Realized Gains And Losses Related To Marketable Securities
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Including the current and noncurrent portions, fair value as of the balance sheet date of a written promise to pay a note, initially due after one year or beyond the operating cycle if longer, which can be exchanged for a specified amount of one or more securities (typically common stock), at the option of the issuer or the holder.
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Contractual interest coupon of the convertible debt
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This element represents the portion of the balance sheet assertion valued at fair value by the entity whether such amount is presented as a separate caption or as a parenthetical disclosure. Additionally, this element may be used in connection with the fair value disclosures required in the footnote disclosures to the financial statements. The element may be used in both the balance sheet and disclosure in the same submission. This item represents Available-for-sale Securities which consist of all investments in certain debt and equity securities neither classified as trading or held-to-maturity securities, and derivative financial instruments which the Company is a party to as of the balance sheet date.
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