Court Opinion

ID: 4657000
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-02-03 16:00:49.519059+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:01:08.022658
License: Public Domain

Case: 19-2294    Document: 79    Page: 1   Filed: 02/03/2021

        NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
                  ______________________

                  CATERPILLAR INC.,
                      Appellant

                            v.

                WIRTGEN AMERICA, INC.,
                    Cross-Appellant

   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,
                   Intervenor
             ______________________

                   2019-2294, 2019-2338
                  ______________________

     Appeals from the United States Patent and Trademark
 Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in No. IPR2017-
 02185.
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                       JUDGMENT
                  ______________________

    JAMES R. BARNEY, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow,
 Garrett & Dunner, LLP, Washington, DC, argued for
Case: 19-2294     Document: 79   Page: 2    Filed: 02/03/2021

 appellant. Also represented by JOSHUA GOLDBERG,
 ALEXANDER EDISON HARDING, DAVID MROZ.

     RALPH WILSON POWERS, III, Sterne Kessler Goldstein &
 Fox, PLLC, Washington, DC, argued for cross-appellant.
 Also represented by JON WRIGHT; MARK ANDREW KILGORE,
 RYAN D. LEVY, SETH R. OGDEN, WILLIAM E. SEKYI, JOHN
 FRANCIS TRIGGS, Patterson Intellectual Property Law, PC,
 Nashville, TN.

     BRIAN RACILLA, Office of the Solicitor, United States
 Patent and Trademark Office, Alexandria, VA, for interve-
 nor. Also represented by THOMAS W. KRAUSE, FARHEENA
 YASMEEN RASHEED.
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 THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

 ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

       PER CURIAM (O’MALLEY, MAYER, and TARANTO, Cir-
 cuit Judges).
                AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT

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