Court Opinion

ID: 6337979
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-05-05 15:01:10.311058+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:25:09.320255
License: Public Domain

Case: 20-1197    Document: 43     Page: 1    Filed: 05/05/2022

           NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
                  ______________________

 PERSONALIZED MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS, LLC,
                Appellant

                             v.

                       APPLE INC.,
                         Appellee

  KATHERINE K. VIDAL, Under Secretary of Com-
 merce for Intellectual Property and Director of the
    United States Patent and Trademark Office,
                      Intervenor
                ______________________

                        2020-1197
                  ______________________

     Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark
 Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in No. IPR2016-
 00754.
            -------------------------------------------------

 PERSONALIZED MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS, LLC,
                Appellant

                             v.

                       APPLE INC.,
                         Appellee
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 2                          PERSONALIZED MEDIA   v. APPLE INC.

  KATHERINE K. VIDAL, Under Secretary of Com-
 merce for Intellectual Property and Director of the
    United States Patent and Trademark Office,
                      Intervenor
                ______________________

                        2020-1198
                  ______________________

     Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark
 Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in No. IPR2016-
 01520.
                  ______________________

                      ON MOTION
                  ______________________

     Before PROST, REYNA, and TARANTO, Circuit Judges.
 PROST, Circuit Judge.
                         ORDER
     Intervenor moves unopposed to remand these cases to
 the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”)
 to permit the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to issue new
 final written decisions consistent with the Director rehear-
 ing decisions vacating the Board’s prior decisions.
     Upon consideration thereof,
     IT IS ORDERED THAT:
     (1) The motions are granted. The cases are remanded
 to the USPTO for further proceedings consistent with this
 order and the rehearing decisions.
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 PERSONALIZED MEDIA   v. APPLE INC.                           3

    (2) Each side shall bear its own costs.
                                      FOR THE COURT

 May 5, 2022                          /s/ Peter R. Marksteiner
   Date                               Peter R. Marksteiner
                                      Clerk of Court

 ISSUED AS A MANDATE: May 5, 2022