Court Opinion

ID: 4878937
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-08-26 15:03:23.142689+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:02:26.569370
License: Public Domain

Case: 20-1222    Document: 57     Page: 1   Filed: 08/26/2021

        NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
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      APPLE INC., VISA INC., VISA U.S.A., INC.,
                     Appellants

                             v.

        UNIVERSAL SECURE REGISTRY LLC,
                     Appellee
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                   2020-1222, 2020-1234
                  ______________________

     Appeals from the United States Patent and Trademark
 Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in No. IPR2018-
 00810.
                  ______________________

                 Decided: August 26, 2021
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     MARK D. SELWYN, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and
 Dorr LLP, Palo Alto, CA, argued for all appellants. Appel-
 lant Apple Inc. also represented by MONICA GREWAL, Bos-
 ton, MA.

     MATTHEW A. ARGENTI, Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich &
 Rosati, PC, Palo Alto, CA, for appellants Visa Inc., Visa
 U.S.A., Inc. Also represented by MICHAEL T. ROSATO, Se-
 attle, WA.
Case: 20-1222      Document: 57        Page: 2   Filed: 08/26/2021

 2                APPLE INC.   v. UNIVERSAL SECURE REGISTRY LLC

    CHRISTOPHER MATHEWS, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart &
 Sullivan, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, argued for appellee. Also
 represented by TIGRAN GULEDJIAN.
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     Before TARANTO, WALLACH, * and STOLL, Circuit Judges.
 STOLL, Circuit Judge.
      In our opinion in Universal Secure Registry LLC v. Ap-
 ple, Inc., No. 20-2044 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 26, 2021), issued con-
 comitantly with this opinion, we held all the claims at issue
 in this appeal ineligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101. For the
 reasons we explained in Apple Inc. v. Voip-Pal.com, Inc.,
 976 F.3d 1316, 1321 (Fed. Cir. 2020), this appeal is ren-
 dered moot in light of our decision in Universal Secure.
 Thus, we vacate the Board’s final written decision and re-
 mand for the Board to dismiss Apple’s petition.
                VACATED AND REMANDED
                               COSTS
 No costs.

       *Circuit Judge Evan J. Wallach assumed senior sta-
 tus on May 31, 2021.