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Date Created: 2024-02-21 16:03:05.883755+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:48:14.917503
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Case: 23-2396    Document: 23     Page: 1    Filed: 02/21/2024

           NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
                  ______________________

                       APPLE INC.,
                        Appellant

                             v.

                    RFCYBER CORP.,
                         Appellee
                  ______________________

                        2023-2396
                  ______________________

     Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark
 Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in No. IPR2022-
 00412.
            -------------------------------------------------

                 In Re RFCYBER CORP.,
                         Appellant
                  ______________________

                        2023-2418
                  ______________________

     Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark
 Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in No. IPR2022-
 00413.
                  ______________________

                       ON MOTION
Case: 23-2396     Document: 23      Page: 2     Filed: 02/21/2024

 2                                  APPLE INC. v. RFCYBER CORP.

                   ______________________

 Before TARANTO, Circuit Judge.
                          ORDER
     Apple Inc. moves to dismiss its Appeal No. 2023-2396
 pursuant to Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 42(b) and
 to withdraw as appellee from RFCyber Corp.’s Appeal No.
 2023-2418. The motion states that RFCyber Corp. does not
 oppose either request. The parties agree to bear their own
 costs with respect to Appeal No. 2023-2396.
     Upon consideration thereof,
     IT IS ORDERED THAT:
     (1) The motion is granted to the extent that the above-
 captioned appeals are deconsolidated and Appeal No. 2023-
 2396 is dismissed. Each side shall bear its own costs re-
 garding Appeal No. 2023-2396.
     (2) Apple Inc. is withdrawn from Appeal No. 2023-
 2418. The official caption for Appeal No. 2023-2418 is re-
 vised in this order to reflect Apple’s non-participation.
     (3) The opening brief in Appeal No. 2023-2418 is due
 no later than 60 days from the date of entry of this order.
     (4) The United States Patent and Trademark Office
 (PTO) is directed to inform this court, within 30 days from
 the date of entry of this order, whether it intends to inter-
 vene in Appeal No. 2023-2418.
      (5) If the PTO elects to participate as intervenor in Ap-
 peal No. 2023-2418, its docketing statement is due no later
 than 14 days after it files its notice of election to intervene,
 and its brief is due within 40 days after the opening brief
 is served.
     (6) If the PTO elects not to intervene in Appeal No.
 2023-2418, the appendix is due no later than seven days
 from either the date of filing of the opening brief or the date
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 APPLE INC. v. RFCYBER CORP.                               3

 of filing of the PTO’s notice of non-election, whichever is
 later.
     (7) The Clerk of Court shall transmit a copy of this or-
 der to the merits panel assigned to Appeal No. 2023-2418.
                                            FOR THE COURT

 February 21, 2024
       Date

 ISSUED AS A MANDATE (as to Appeal No. 2023-2396
 only): February 21, 2024

 cc: United States Patent and Trademark Office