Court Opinion

ID: 4653015
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-01-21 17:00:46.243185+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:01:51.481390
License: Public Domain

Case: 18-1364    Document: 78    Page: 1   Filed: 01/21/2021

        NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
                  ______________________

                      SIPCO, LLC,
                        Appellant

                            v.

                EMERSON ELECTRIC CO.,
                         Appellee
                  ______________________

                        2018-1364
                  ______________________

     Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark
 Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in No. IPR2016-
 00984.
                  ______________________

                       JUDGMENT
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     GREGORY J. GONSALVES, Falls Church, VA, argued for
 appellant. Also represented by THOMAS F. MEAGHER,
 Meagher Emanuel Laks Goldberg & Bovino, LLP, Prince-
 ton, NJ.

    JAMES LAWRENCE DAVIS, JR., Ropes & Gray LLP, East
 Palo Alto, CA, argued for appellee. Also represented by
 JAMES RICHARD BATCHELDER; STEVEN PEPE, New York,
 NY; DOUGLAS HALLWARD-DRIEMEIER, KATHRYN C.
 THORNTON, Washington, DC.
Case: 18-1364     Document: 78   Page: 2    Filed: 01/21/2021

     BENJAMIN T. HICKMAN, Office of the Solicitor, United
 States Patent and Trademark Office, Alexandria, VA, ar-
 gued for amicus curiae United States. Also represented by
 THOMAS W. KRAUSE, MONICA BARNES LATEEF, ROBERT J.
 MCMANUS, FARHEENA YASMEEN RASHEED; MELISSA N.
 PATTERSON, JACK STARCHER, Appellate Staff, Civil Divi-
 sion, United States Department of Justice, Washington,
 DC.
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 THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

 ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

     PER CURIAM (PROST, Chief Judge, MAYER and
 MOORE, Circuit Judges).
                AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT

       January 21, 2021          /s/ Peter R. Marksteiner
            Date                 Peter R. Marksteiner
                                 Clerk of Court