NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

 

United States Court of Appeals 

for the Federal Circuit ______________________ 

MERS KUTT,

Plaintiff-Appellant

v.

APPLE INC., INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS 

MACHINES CORPORATION, INTEL 

CORPORATION, NVIDIA CORPORATION, 

GOOGLE LLC, LENOVO GROUP LIMITED, ACER, 

INC., DELL, INC., TOSHIBA CORPORATION, 

VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS, INC., SPRINT 

CORPORATION, AT&T CORP., T-MOBILE USA, 

INC., BLACKBERRY LIMITED, FKA RESEARCH IN 

MOTION INC., BEST BUY CO., INC, SCOTIABANK, 

FKA BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA, JPMORGAN CHASE 

& CO., JONES DAY, SEASONS CONDOMINIUMS, 

THE TRAVELERS COMPANIES, INC., PAMELA 

MARY DEVINS, ELLEN AZEVEDO, CAROL CLAY, 

BRANCH BANKING & TRUST CO., NKA TRUIST 

BANK, ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, ARM LTD.,

Defendants-Appellees

ARM HOLDINGS PLC, SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS 

CO., LTD., MICROSOFT CORPORATION, 

HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY, QUALCOMM 

INCORPORATED, HTC CORPORATION, NOKIA 

CORPORATION, ASUSTEK COMPUTER, INC., 

SONY CORPORATION, FUJITSU LIMITED, 

AMAZON.COM, INC., EBAY, INC., ATMEL 

CORPORATION, EDWARD FRANCIS 

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OCONNOR,LLP, CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, 

STORAGE POST INC, ROBERT GREENE, RHEA 

GREENE, MR. STUART SMITH LLP, UNITED 

STATES OF AMERICA GOVERNMENTS,

Defendants

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2020-1757

______________________ 

Appeal from the United States District Court for the 

Eastern District of Texas in No. 2:19-cv-00316-RWS, Judge 

Robert Schroeder, III.

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JUDGMENT

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MERS KUTT, North York, Ontario, Canada, pro se.

 BENJAMIN ELACQUA, Fish & Richardson P.C., Houston, 

TX, for defendant-appellee Apple Inc. Also represented by 

ASHLEY BOLT, Atlanta, GA; ANDREW THOMPSON GORHAM, 

Gillam & Smith LLP, Tyler, TX; MELISSA R. SMITH, Marshall, TX. 

 MICHAEL EDWIN JONES, Potter Minton, Tyler, TX, for 

defendants-appellees International Business Machines 

Corporation, Verizon Communications, Inc.

 DAN L. BAGATELL, Perkins Coie LLP, Hanover, NH, for 

defendant-appellee Intel Corporation. Also represented by 

DAVID FOLSOM, Jackson Walker LLP, Texarkana, TX.

 DAVID M. HOFFMAN, Fish & Richardson P.C., Austin, 

TX, for defendant-appellee NVIDIA Corporation. Also represented by ASHLEY BOLT, Atlanta, GA.

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 MICHAEL SOONUK KWUN, Kwun Bhansali Lazarus LLP, 

San Francisco, CA, for defendant-appellee Google LLC.

 ERIC H. FINDLAY, Findlay Craft PC, Tyler, TX, for defendants-appellees Lenovo Group Limited, Acer, Inc., Best 

Buy Co., Inc. Defendants-appellees Lenovo Group Limited, 

Best Buy Co., Inc. also represented by ROGER BRIAN CRAFT. 

 MICHAEL HAWES, Baker Botts, LLP, Houston, TX, for 

defendants-appellees Dell, Inc., Toshiba Corporation, Advanced Micro Devices. Defendant-appellee Dell, Inc. also 

represented by ROGER FULGHUM. 

 MARTIN GILMORE, Perkins Coie LLP, Austin, TX, for 

defendants-appellees Sprint Corporation, T-Mobile USA, 

Inc. 

 SCOTT W. BREEDLOVE, Carter Arnett, PLLC, Dallas, 

TX, for defendant-appellee AT&T Corp. Also represented 

by MINGHUI YANG, Carmichael IP, PLLC, Tysons Corner, 

VA. 

 SHAUN WILLIAM HASSETT, Potter Minton PC, Tyler, TX, 

for defendant-appellee BlackBerry Limited. Also represented by JASON W. COOK, McGuireWoods LLP, Dallas, TX; 

BRIAN DAVID SCHMALZBACH, Richmond, VA. 

 ERIC JOSEPH KLEIN, Vinson & Elkins LLP, Dallas, TX, 

for defendant-appellee Scotiabank. Also represented by 

MATTHEW WALTER MORAN, JEFFREY R. SWIGART. 

 ROSE CORDERO PREY, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, New 

York, NY, for defendant-appellee JPMorgan Chase & Co. 

Also represented by JOSHUA LEE RASKIN. 

 MARGARET ISABEL LYLE, Jones Day, Dallas, TX, for defendant-appellee Jones Day. 

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 MIA BREAUX LORICK, Robert Markel Weinberg Butler 

Hailey PC, Houston, TX, for defendants-appellees Seasons 

Condominiums, Pamela Mary Devins, Ellen Azevedo, 

Carol Clay.

 ALAN I. BECKER, Litchfield Cavo LLP, Chicago, IL, for 

defendant-appellee The Travelers Companies, Inc.

 MATIAS FERRARIO, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton 

LLP, Winston-Salem, NC, for defendant-appellee Branch 

Banking and Trust Company.

 KEVIN PAUL ANDERSON, Duane Morris LLP, Washington, DC, for defendant-appellee ARM Ltd. 

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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is 

ORDERED and ADJUDGED: 

 PER CURIAM (NEWMAN, REYNA, and CHEN, Circuit 

Judges).

AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

 

 ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT 

 

November 9, 2022 

Date

/s/ Peter R. Marksteiner

Peter R. Marksteiner

Clerk of Court

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