Court Opinion

ID: 5132254
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-12-07 00:02:20.274309+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:23:29.054388
License: Public Domain

Case: 21-1708   Document: 32     Page: 1   Filed: 11/03/2021

        NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
                 ______________________

                 GILBERT P. HYATT,
                  Plaintiff-Appellant

                            v.

   UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK
  OFFICE, ANDREW HIRSHFELD, PERFORMING
  THE FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES OF THE UNDER
       SECRETARY OF COMMERCE FOR
 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND DIRECTOR OF
 THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK
                   OFFICE,
              Defendants-Appellees
             ______________________

                       2021-1708
                 ______________________

    Appeal from the United States District Court for the
 Eastern District of Virginia in No. 1:18-cv-00546-TSE-
 MSN, Judge T. S. Ellis, III.
                 ______________________

                      JUDGMENT
                 ______________________

     ANDREW M. GROSSMAN, Baker & Hostetler LLP, Wash-
 ington, DC, argued for plaintiff-appellant. Also repre-
 sented by MARK W. DELAQUIL.
Case: 21-1708     Document: 32   Page: 2    Filed: 11/03/2021

    PETER JOHN SAWERT, Office of the Solicitor, United
 States Patent and Trademark Office, Alexandria, VA, ar-
 gued for defendants-appellees.    Also represented by
 JESSICA ABER, THOMAS W. KRAUSE, ROBERT J. MCMANUS,
 RAJ PAREKH, MICHAEL TYLER.
                 ______________________

 THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

 ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

     PER CURIAM (PROST, REYNA, and HUGHES, Circuit
 Judges).
                AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT

       November 3, 2021          /s/ Peter R. Marksteiner
            Date                 Peter R. Marksteiner
                                 Clerk of Court