Court Opinion

ID: 806970
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2012-08-20 15:11:14+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:37:13.125747
License: Public Domain

NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

United States Court of Appeals
    for the Federal Circuit
                 ______________________

         SIRONA DENTAL SYSTEMS, INC.,
                  Appellant,

                            v.

        DAVID J. KAPPOS, DIRECTOR,
   UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK
                  OFFICE,
                  Appellee,

                          and

                     3M ESPE AG,
                        Appellee.
                  ____________________

                       2012-1097
             (Reexamination No. 95/000,390)
                 ______________________

    Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark
Office, Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences.
                  ______________________

                      JUDGMENT
                 ______________________

    JOHN D. CARPENTER, Law Office of John D. Carpenter,
of Pasadena, California, argued for the appellant. Of
counsel on the brief was DAVID A. DILLARD, Christie,
Parker & Hale LLP, of Glendale, California.

    LYNNE E. PETTIGREW, Associate Solicitor, Office of the
Solicitor, United States Patent and Trademark Office, of
Alexandria, Virginia argued for appellee United States
Patent and Trademark Office. With her on the brief were
RAYMOND T. CHEN, Solicitor, and FARHEENA Y. RASHEED,
Associate Solicitor. Of counsel was BENJAMIN D.M. WOOD.

   PAMELA STEWART, 3M Innovative Properties
Company, of St. Paul, Minnesota, argued for the appellee
3M ESPE AG. Of counsel on the brief was JOHN C.
ADKISSON, Fish & Richardson, P.C., of Minneapolis,
Minnesota.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

   PER CURIAM (NEWMAN, PROST, and MOORE, Circuit
Judges).

           AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT

 August 20, 2012             /s/ Jan Horbaly
     Date                       Jan Horbaly
                                   Clerk