Court Opinion

ID: 4879506
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-08-27 15:04:02.60072+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:12:41.392432
License: Public Domain

Case: 20-1662    Document: 53     Page: 1   Filed: 08/27/2021

        NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
                  ______________________

      VISA INC., VISA U.S.A. INC., APPLE INC.,
                     Appellants

                             v.

       UNIVERSAL SECURE REGISTRY, LLC,
                     Appellee
              ______________________

                        2020-1662
                  ______________________

     Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark
 Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in No. IPR2018-
 01350.
                  ______________________

                 Decided: August 27, 2021
                  ______________________

     MATTHEW A. ARGENTI, Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich &
 Rosati, PC, Palo Alto, CA, argued for all appellants. Ap-
 pellants Visa Inc., Visa U.S.A. Inc. also represented by
 MICHAEL T. ROSATO, Seattle, WA.

     MARK D. SELWYN, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and
 Dorr LLP, Palo Alto, CA, for appellant Apple Inc. Also rep-
 resented by BRITTANY BLUEITT AMADI, Washington, DC;
 MARK CHRISTOPHER FLEMING, MONICA GREWAL, Boston,
 MA.
Case: 20-1662        Document: 53       Page: 2   Filed: 08/27/2021

 2                   VISA INC.   v. UNIVERSAL SECURE REGISTRY, LLC

     CHRISTOPHER MATHEWS, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart &
 Sullivan, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, argued for appellee. Also
 represented by TIGRAN GULEDJIAN.
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     Before NEWMAN, PROST *, and TARANTO, Circuit Judges.
 PER CURIAM.
     The patent at issue in this appeal is U.S. Patent No.
 8,856,539, owned by Universal Secure Registry LLC (USR).
 Visa filed a petition for an inter partes review, challenging
 several claims of the ’539 patent before the Patent Trial
 and Appeal Board, which instituted the requested review
 and eventually issued a final written decision that Visa had
 not shown the challenged claims to be unpatentable. In
 another case, we have affirmed a district court’s judgment
 that all claims of the ’539 patent are patent ineligible. Uni-
 versal Secure Registry LLC v. Apple Inc., No. 20-2044 (Fed.
 Cir. Aug. 26, 2021). Therefore, as the parties agreed at oral
 argument, this appeal involving the ’539 patent is now
 moot. Apple Inc. v. Voip-Pal.com, Inc., 976 F.3d 1316, 1321
 (Fed. Cir. 2020); Oral Arg. at 12:10–12:50. We vacate the
 Board’s final written decision and remand for the Board to
 dismiss Visa’s petition. See Apple, 976 F.3d at 1321 (citing
 United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36, 39–41
 (1950)).
       No costs.
                   VACATED AND REMANDED

       *Circuit Judge Sharon Prost vacated the position of
 Chief Judge on May 21, 2021.