Court Opinion

ID: 4657001
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-02-03 16:00:50.010128+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:01:08.026825
License: Public Domain

Case: 19-2206    Document: 72    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        NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.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.,
                       Appellee

   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
             ______________________

                        2019-2206
                  ______________________

     Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark
 Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in No. IPR2017-
 02188.
                  ______________________

                       JUDGMENT
                  ______________________

    DAVID MROZ, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett
 & Dunner, LLP, Washington, DC, argued for appellant.
Case: 19-2206     Document: 72   Page: 2    Filed: 02/03/2021

 Also represented by JAMES R. BARNEY, JOSHUA GOLDBERG.

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

     MAI-TRANG DUC DANG, Office of the Solicitor, United
 States Patent and Trademark Office, Alexandria, VA, for
 intervenor. Also represented by THOMAS W. KRAUSE,
 FARHEENA YASMEEN RASHEED.
                 ______________________

 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