Court Opinion

ID: 4238482
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2018-01-23 17:00:34.803365+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:48:02.927813
License: Public Domain

NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
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                   GOOGLE LLC,
                     Appellant

                           v.

       NETWORK-1 TECHNOLOGIES, INC.,
                   Appellee
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                      2017-1379
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    Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark
Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in No. CBM2015-
00113.
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              Decided: January 23, 2018
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    ERIKA ARNER, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Gar-
rett & Dunner, LLP, Reston, VA, argued for appellant.
Also represented by JOSHUA GOLDBERG, J. MICHAEL
JAKES, Washington, DC.

   JONAS BRAM JACOBSON, Dovel & Luner, LLP, Santa
Monica, CA, argued for appellee. Also represented by
GREGORY S. DOVEL, SEAN LUNER, MATTHAEUS MARTINO-
WEINHARDT; JUNG SUK HAHM, CHARLES R. MACEDO,
Amster Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP, New York, NY.
2              GOOGLE LLC   v. NETWORK-1 TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

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    Before LOURIE, TARANTO, and CHEN, Circuit Judges.
CHEN, Circuit Judge.
    Appellant Google Inc. appeals from the final written
decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (Board) in a
covered business method (CBM) post-grant review pro-
ceeding concerning Network-1 Technologies, Inc.’s U.S.
Patent No. 8,904,464 (the ’464 Patent).
    In the decision, the Board ruled that claims 1–34 of
the ’464 Patent were not proven unpatentable. In so
ruling, the Board considered the proper construction of
the term “machine-readable instructions,” which is recited
in all claims. Based on the evidence and arguments
provided by the parties, the Board concluded that “ma-
chine-readable instructions” would have been understood
as “code or pseudocode that is executable by a computer
processor.” J.A. 8.
    This court finds no error in the Board’s construction of
“machine-readable instructions.” Substantial evidence
supports the factual findings underlying the Board’s
construction. We are also not persuaded by Google’s
argument that the intrinsic evidence contradicts the
Board’s construction. In view of this construction and the
arguments and evidence Google presented below, we
conclude that the Board did not err in determining that
Google did not meet its burden of proving that the claims
of the ’464 Patent are unpatentable.
    For the foregoing reasons, we affirm.
                       AFFIRMED